Type

White Wine

Appellation

Petit Chablis

Variety

100% Chardonnay

Eleonore Moreau on her wine : "In the same spirit of Chablis Pérégrinations, this wine is an experimentation of a Petit Chablis harvested by hand, fermented with natural yeasts, and aged on the lees, made with every little human intervention (only SO2 added and clay used for fining). We have chosen a beautiful parcel of well-exposed Petit Chablis to extract complexity and nice minerality. "

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Beauregard Nord

Soil type

Portlandian limestone

Vine age1995

PruningGuyot simple

ExpositionRelatively flat with good sun exposure

Altitude280-300m

Vinification

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

Elevage10 months on the lees in stainless steel tanks

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringFiltration with kieselguhr filter / Bentonite fining (natural clay)

Additional info

Total production average1,500 bottles

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...