Domaine Moreau-Naudet Chablis 2024

Moreau’s Petit Chablis comes from a single 2.5-hectare site, La Grosse Cour, between Courgis and Beine, just outside Chablis on the route to Auxerre. It has a southwest orientation and lies on Kimmeridgian soils (as opposed to the higher Portlandian soils on which most Petit is grown).

Half of the plot is home to 25- to 30-year-old vines, while the other half is somewhat older at 45 to 50 years. The wine fermented spontaneously in large vats of 32 to 100 hectolitres. This wine possesses a surprising, though welcome, gravitas and charisma for a Petit Chablis. It is always a pleasure to taste what mature vines and quality, organic-focused farming can create at this level.     

'Hmm – there’s a fine mineral depth here – that’s very encouraging – I’d carafe to open a little more. Wide, a fine mouthful of flavour here. It vibrates in the finish – that’s super – and long too.' Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report

Moreau Naudet has earned a bit of a cult following in Chablis, founded on the vision of the late Stéphane Moreau and now lovingly continued by his wife, Virginie. The estate tends some prime parcels around the village, with an emphasis on old vines and careful vineyard work that lets the Kimmeridgian limestone soils shine through. The result is Chablis with precision and a subtle depth that keeps people coming back.