Varietal
100% Chardonnay. Yield 50Hl/Ha.
Tasting notes
Colour : beautiful gold color with green hues.
Nose : a very delightful complexity, composed with aromas of fruits, honey and vegetal flavours.
Palate : balanced, a very long finish in the mouth leaves a persistent freshness.
Food and wine pairing
Chicken with morels, bass, salmon blinis, Beaufort and Comté.
Serving suggestions
12°C
Ageing potential
8 years
Origin
From among the seven prestigious climats located in the commune of Chablis, the 11.92 ha of Valmur stretch across a “valley” at the heart of the appellation, running alongside that of Vaudésir as well as Grenouilles and Les Clos.
Its location, offering subtle variations of exposition and altitude, enable more varied wines to be produced here than in the other vineyards. Moreau’s selection concerns 2 ha of the vineyard.
Chalky scree slopes overlying Kimmeridgian marl. The soil is heavy and is strewn with small fossilized oysters known as “Exogyra Virgula”.
The grapes come from a single plot of old vines, facing the setting sun and often the last to be harvested.
Vinification and maturing
The grapes or the must come from purchase contracts. We chose to work with talentuous winemakers, leaders in their appellations, and respectful of their terroir. Vinified on our own site, our Chablis Grand Cru benefit from the same attention as our other wines. The juice is delicately extracted by a long pneumatic pressing. That ensure a juice of hight quality thanks to homogeneous extraction, safeguarding grapes integrity. Then it’s settled by natural decanting, also called static clarification. Alcohol fermentation is carried out in a stainless steel tanks under controlled temperatures (18 to 20°C) to preserve the fineness and the freshness of the Chardonnay. Once, 20% of the wine is put into oak barrels specially selected for its fine grain, and left to age on fine lees for 12 months, with softs lees stirring to bring fullness and complexity to the wine.
Vintage : 2010
100% Chardonnay