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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 8/6/2021 & rated 91 points: Dauvissat plus X Tasting (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): *** all wines tasted blind ***
Glass: Zalto Bordeaux
Clear, medium golden color. Floral and medicinal nose, some unusual botrytis (?). Freaky, but nice.
On the palate as well rather freaky. Some menthol, hay, botrytis and some band aid. Did FX Pichler ever made Chablis? 😊 This wine is not flawed, it is really interesting. Good depth and tension, round and long. Just a bit freaky. 91 (615 views) | | | Tasted by Anders Danielsen Lie on 5/30/2017 & rated 91 points: 2013 Vaudésir fra Chr Moreau. Barnerov av dimensjoner. Massiv nese med mye uintegrert fat, tropefrukt, myrblomst og steinete mineralitet som ligger og ulmer under det tunge fruktlokket. Kraftig på smak, litt bitter fruktsødme innover, men også plenty syre, mineralsk finish. Tror jeg hadde bommet rimelig greit på denne blindt. Gjemmes på ubestemt tid. 91p? (1362 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 6/23/2015: Cellar and Vineyard Visit with Domaine Christian Moreau (Chablis France): Tasting at domaine. Floral start with ripe apple and lemon curd with ever-so-slightly tropical hints. Leaner flavor profile, this is elegant and finessed, just moderately powerful but well textured. I think this will be a good young drinking Grand Cru. (1865 views) | | | Tasted by peternelson on 3/7/2015 & rated 92 points: Wet rock, chalk, good fuller body, great lifted acidity, a little pie crust. Quite intense, very good. 1-5 y.o. barrel, with only 2-3% new oak. (1124 views) |
| By Allen Meadows
Burghound, Oct-15, Issue #60
(Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis - Vaudésir Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | i-WineReview.com, Chablis (9/15/2015)
(Christian Moreau Pere et Fils Vaudesir Chablis Grand Cru) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, Chablis: 2014 & 2013 (Aug 2015) (8/1/2015)
(Domaine Christian Moreau Père Et Fils Chablis Vaudésir Grand Cru) Subscribe to see review text. | By Allen Meadows
Burghound, Oct-14, Issue #56
(Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Chablis - Vaudésir Grand Cru White) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, July/August 2014, IWC Issue #175
(Domaine Christian Moreau Pere et Fils Chablis Vaudesir) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2013 Chablis: Living on the Edge (Aug 2014)
(Christian Moreau Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir White) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils Producer website
Christian Moreau, former director of J. Moreau & Fils in Burgundy's Chablis region, is unveiling a new project in Chablis. Three wines of the new Christian Moreau Pére & Fils label—a Chablis 1999, a premier cru Vaillons 1999 and a small amount of grand cru Les Clos 1999—will reach wine shops in the United States this spring.
The new wines are made from purchased grapes, but Moreau will regain the use of his own premiers and grands crus vineyards in 2001, after the expiration of his contract to supply grapes to J. Moreau & Fils, which is now owned by Burgundy giant Boisset. Among Moreau's vineyard holdings are 25 acres of grand cru Vaudisir, Valmur and Les Clos, including the tiny Clos des Hospices, a coveted 5.3-acre monopole, or single-owner vineyard, in the heart of Les Clos.
Joining Moreau as winemaker is his son Fabien, who studied enology at Dijon University. "There will be no more vins de table," said the elder Moreau. "I want to stay on the small side and control the quality." To achieve growth from 250 cases to 6,500 cases annually, Moreau purchased one of the William Févre wineries from Bouchard Pére & Fils.
The new Christian Moreau Chablis, Vaillons and Les Clos, not yet rated, will sell for about $17, $28 and $50, respectively. Frederick Wildman & Sons of New York, whose contract with J. Moreau & Fils ended recently, is the importer, continuing the relationship that Christian Moreau's father, Guy, began in 1938.Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeVaudésir at weinlagen.info
Vaudesir is one of the seven official climats of the Chablis Grand Cru white wine appellation. The vineyard – planted entirely to Chardonnay – sits atop the Grand Cru hill, overlooking the town of Chablis below. Vaudesir Grand Cru wines tend to be softer and more elegant than other Chablis Grand Cru wines, with floral characters rounding out Chablis' iconic minerality.
The vineyard covers 42 acres (17ha) of steep land above the Grenouilles Grand Cru site on the hill, just east of Preuses. The vineyard is shaped like an amphitheatre, and is cut through by a track known as the "Chemin des Vaudesirs", giving it a double orientation. Half of its vines face due south, with the remainder facing southwest.
This topography helps to distinguish Vaudesir from other vineyard sites, as the steep slopes provide some protection from northerly winds and vines instead benefit from good exposure to sunlight. This moderates temperatures in the cool Chablis climate, giving Vaudesir a favorable mesoclimate where grapes can develop phenolic ripeness alongside acidity. This leads to balanced wines with lighter body than some of its more exposed neighbors.
Another crucial factor in the Vaudesir terroir is the soils, which tend to be lighter than in the other Grand Cru climats. Although they are still based on the same Kimmeridgian subsoil that sits beneath the rest of the Grand Cru hill, soils in Vaudesir tend toward clay rather than limestone. The lower proportions of limestone here have led to a wine with a more refined minerality: Vaudesir Grand Cru wines lack the muscularity of Les Clos or Valmur wines.
Vaudesir is home to the La Moutonne vineyard: a six-acre (2.5ha) site that is not officially part of the AOC law, but is often considered to be the eighth Chablis Grand Cru.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBurgundy Les vins de Bourgogne (Bureau interprofessionnel des vins de Bourgogne) (and in English)
Burgundy - The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Cote d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Cote de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Cote de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Cote Chalonnaise and the Maconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Cote d'Or. Also included by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Burgundy Report | Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne - na stejné téma od Heleny Baker
# 2013 Vintage Notes:
* "2013 is a vintage that 20 years ago would have been a disaster." - Will Lyons
* "low yields and highly variable reds, much better whites." - Bill Nanson
* "Virtually all wines were chaptalised, with a bit of sugar added before fermentation to increase the final alcohol level." - Jancis Robinson
# 2014 Vintage Notes:
"We have not had such splendid harvest weather for many years. This will ensure high quality (fragrant, classy and succulent are words already being used) across the board, up and down the hierarchy and well as consistently from south to north geographically apart from those vineyards ravaged by the hail at the end of June." - Clive Coates
# 2015 Vintage Notes:
"Low yields and warm weather allowed for ample ripeness, small berries and an early harvest. Quality is looking extremely fine, with some people whispering comparisons with the outstanding 2005 vintage. Acid levels in individual wines may be crucial." - Jancis Robinson
# 2017 Vintage Notes:
"Chablis suffered greatly from frost in 2017, resulting in very reduced volumes. As ever, the irony seems to be that what remains is very good quality, as it is in the Côte d’Or. Cooler nights across the region have resulted in higher-than-usual acidity, with good conditions throughout the harvest season allowing for ripe, healthy fruit." - Jancis Robinson
# 2018 Vintage Notes:
"The most successful region for red Burgundy in 2018 was the Côte de Beaune. The weather was ideal in this area, with just enough sunlight and rain to produce perfectly balanced wines naturally." - Vinfolio
Chablis Chablis (Fédération de Défense de l'Appellation Chablis) | Chablis (Burgundy Wines)
2014 Vintage Notes:
"... a hybrid of 2004/2007 and 2010. The stone, citrus and limestone amalgam is exactly what we search for in Chablis as the style harkens to a day in the Cote de Beaune proper (1960's - 1980's) when wine was not meant to be consumed the week it was released, battonage was not used by all and new oak was rarely seen ... the texture is natural and 'of the vintage' not 'of the winemaker' .... Like Sancerre or the Loire in general, 2014 in Chablis is one of those rare years with extract and transparency. It appears to be a vintage for the "neoclassic" ages and those of us intent on cellaring the most terroir-driven (but still powerful) examples of vineyard, site-place and varietal will want to invest (heavily) in the magnetic and electric 2014's." - Jon Rimmerman
2018 Vintage Notes:
"There’s not that razor sharp Chablis acidity in 2018,” says Patrick Piuze. “But there is good definition of place. The dry conditions drove vines to drink deeper down in the soil profile."
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