ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Domaine Orion was created by the intrepid Léa Schaller, who decided to trade a career in the music business in Paris for a life in the countryside when her father retired from farming the family farm in 2019. For two generations previous her family had sold the grapes from the ten hectares they owned around the village of Préhy to the giant La Chablissienne co-op, but Lea, when it was her turn to take over the property, decided to, instead, throw herself headlong into earning a viticultural and winemaking degree in order to eventually bottle her family’s grapes instead of selling them off.  She built a small winery down the street from Prehy’s famous church and set about reimagining the family vineyards in the Petit and Chablis AOCs and, starting with the 2019 harvest, creating her own wines. Naming the domaine after a Metallica song, she designed the label to match the tattoo on her arm, a homage to her family name Schaller which, in old Alsatian German (the family’s roots), refers to the village bellringer who announced the end of each day and bringing the local owls from their roosts for the night.  With vineyards in three sites in three appellations and only two wines to make, this is a micro-estate in every sense of the word. Lea takes an inordinate amount of care both in the vineyard and in the cellar and, if her first releases are any indication, she clearly values purity and precision of above all else. Supplier Notes