Stéphane Regnault is an aerospace engineer turned sommelier who returned to his hometown of Le Mesnil and became the first generation to vinify at his family’s Domaine. Since his return home in 2007, the property was converted to organic farming, having been certified organic in 2020. Regnault now uses a number of biodynamic preparations as well: he mentions he’s interested in practices that allow for ‘respect of the soil and living things—an ecosystem is a whole of which the vine is only a part!’. Stéphane is also a jazz saxophone musician, hence the beautiful labels: visual representations of different modes in improvisational jazz. Each evokes the tone and structure of each wine. 

This Chromatique Extra Brut was produced mainly from a base vintage of 2021 Chardonnay, with some of Stephane's perpetual reserve wine. Disgorged in June 2024 with a dosage of only 2 g/L. Chardonnay is all from the single Grand Cru vineyard, Moulin, planted in the 1970s. Moulin’s has an eastern exposure, thin but richly chalky topsoil supported by grass plantings, and a subsoil of soft, fractured chalk. Vineyard work takes lunar cycle into account and plant decoctions are used for vine treatments.

Grape: 100% Chardonnay 

Soil: Clayey Limestone with Chalk subsoil 

Viticulture: Organic with some Biodynamic principles