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History - A vineyard Chablis...A great name. And an illustrious history. The history of wine-making in Chablis goes back to 865 AD with the development of vineyards by the monks of Saint-Martin-de-Tours on slopes facing the Serein River that cuts through that village. After the French Revolution, the total vineyard surface area reached 38,000 hectares, but the coming of phylloxera in 1887 reduced the vineyards to almost nothing. At the beginning of the 1960s, when the Chablis vineyard surface area was less than 1,000 hectares, that Chablis wine production took off again with the growth of mechanization and setting up of anti-frost systems (another plague for the vines of the region). The current productive vineyard surface area is 4,580 hectares.

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