Type

White Wine

Appellation

Chablis

Variety

100% Chardonnay

Eleonore Moreau on her wine : "This cuvée is very young because 2018 is the first year that we bottled it. This wine is an experimentation, the target is simple: let nature work alone, with minimum human intervention. Harvest was done by hand, natural yeasts were used, and aging took place on the lees. We added very minimal SO2 and used natural clay to eliminate proteins (fining). We have chosen the oldest vines (38 years old) to have a powerful and complex wine."

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Vaucormes

Soil type

Kimmeridgien Limestone

Vine age45 years old

PruningGuyot Double

ExpositionRelatively flat with good sun exposure

Altitude280-300m

Vinification

Natural yeast (alcoholic and malolactic) fermentation in stainless steel tanks

ElevageOn the leees for 12 months in stainless steel tanks

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringBentonite collage (natural clay). Filtration with kieselguhr filter and with natural earth

More about
the producer

Domaine des Pérégrins

Founded in 1992

13 hectares

The Moreau family has been farming their own 13 hectares of vines organically for over a decade, though long sold their fruit off to negociants. When Eléonore took over the vinification in 2016, she insisted on unusually long aging for all the wines, organic certification, and a rigorous attention to work in the vines and the cellar. Eléonore has a rare vision in Chablis, focused on producing exceptional wines while remaining an excellent steward of their land.

The vines were all planted by Eléonore's father in the early 1980s on land that the family has owned for generations in Poilly-sur-Serein, located in the southeast corner of the Chablis appellation on typical clay-limestone terroir. Laurent Moreau was in a prime position when the Chablis appellation was expanded to...