2020 Domaine Louis Moreau Vaillons Premier Cru Chablis

Winemaker Notes:  This Premier Cru wine is very generous, fleshy and lively. Its very poor soil composed of clay and calcareous marls ensures its minerality & vivacity, so typical of the Chablis appellation, offset by a concentration of aromas that stem from the old vines which give to the wine its roundness & richness.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM


Wine & Spirits - "Louis Moreau farms 8.8 acres of chardonnay in Vaillons—parcels assembled since 1945, including some vines planted that year and others from the 1970s. Their holdings yield a wine with quiet depths and a warm, regal, hazelnut-scented finish. That nuttiness develops with the aging of lees from an indigenous yeast fermentation, all of it taking place in stainless steel."


Vinous - "The 2020 Chablis Vaillons 1er Cru has a well-defined bouquet with hints of peach skin, undergrowth and resin scents, becoming more floral with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a fine thread of acidity, quite tensile with a touch of dried honey emerging towards the finish, reflecting that warm summer. Very fine. Tasted blind at the BIVB tasting in Chablis."