Antoine Chevalier is the third generation of winemakers in his family in Vitry-en-Perthois, in the Coteaux Vitryats, southeast of Reims. His grandfather Guy, a farmer and livestock breeder, planted the first vines there in 1973; his father Dominique expanded the vineyard; Antoine is the first to vinify and bottle under his own name, alongside his partner Aurore. Across 2.5 hectares spread over Vitry-en-Perthois, Couvrot and Val-de-Vière, almost everything is Chardonnay, on outcropping Turonian chalk. Certified HVE since 2016, organic since 2020 and biodynamic since 2021, the estate ferments spontaneously and ages in barrels and vats. « L’horizon pour limite » (the horizon as the only limit): the motto sums up the house’s spirit. Carkonnia, an extra-brut Blanc de Blancs from the Le Jardin de Meunier lieu-dit, partly aged in oak, is the signature wine; Les Crochots, an unfiltered Coteaux Champenois Blanc (578 bottles), the insider’s bottle. Fine, fresh, chalky Champagnes of assertive minerality.