2021 | Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils | Les Clos

The 2021 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru was taken from tank rather than barrel. This was primal on the nose and difficult to read.

Reviews:

• Burghound: Here too the nose is presently dominated by reduction and wood toast. More interesting are the sleek, intense and ultra-fresh middleweight plus flavors that possess excellent size, richness and power where the latter suffuses the sappy, muscular and saliva-inducing, moderately dry and compact finale. This very promising effort is going to need at least a decade to realize its full potential. Impressive.

• Vinous: The 2021 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru was taken from tank rather than barrel. This was primal on the nose and difficult to read. The palate is more expressive: finely tuned with a fine bead of acidity, tensile and saline, it does not possess the complexity of Raveneau’s Les Clos tasted an hour or two before, but it has great penetration and a compelling flinty finish. Excellent.

Producer Information

Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils is a wine producer based in Chablis, in northern Burgundy. The company has a history dating back to 1814 with the establishment of the wine merchant trading company J. Moreau et Fils, founded by Jean Joseph Moreau. The company sold shares in the 1970s and was sold off in the 1980s but, as of 2002, the estate and vineyards have been back in the hands of the Moreau family. Today, the domaine produces multiple examples of Chablis from estate-grown Chardonnay. The estate consists of 12 hectares (30 acres) of organically farmed vineyard land spread throughout Chablis. Approximately 5ha (13 acres) of this land is in the Chablis Grand Cru vineyards, including plots in Blanchot, Le Clos, Valmur, and Vaudésir. Christian Moreau's vines average 45 years old, and are primarily planted on Chablis' famous Kimmeridgian soils. All of the Chardonnay is handpicked, from the domaine's Petit Chablis vineyards up to grand cru. The winemaking process sees fermentation and aging in stainless steel vats. Some wines are aged for four to six months in barrel and around 10 percent of the oak is new wood in the grand cru wines. Domaine Christian Moreau's Clos de Hospices wine from the Le Clos vineyards is one of the estate's top bottlings. The Chardonnay for this wine comes from a tiny parcel of 30-year-old vines that were acquired by the Moreau family in 1904.

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