Moreau Naudet: New Kid on the Chablis Block

“Stéphane Moreau may be very young but he's already been making wine for more than a decade and that he possesses a gifted touch is evident to anyone who has had the pleasure of tasting his wines. One of the strengths of the young is that they're open minded to new ideas and Moreau told me that he has begun experimenting with biodynamie….. I find Moreau to be one of the most exciting young growers in Chablis and his wines are well worth the trouble to get to know if you haven't yet tried them.” Allen Meadows, Burghound

Finding a non-conformist vigneron in Chablis is harder than finding a decent coffee in the French countryside. We’ve been scouring the region for years, seeking out a vigneron who might be trying to shake things up, seeking to redefine what so much of the wine world accepts as authentic Chablis. You know the stuff: flinty, austere, crisp. This style has its place, but it has as much to do with the early harvesting, high yields and machine harvesting that today dominates the region than it does with terroir. Dauvissat and Raveneau have always shown what was possible but where were the others? At last, we ‘stumbled’ across what we had been searching for, thanks, initially, to the Graillot family who gave us a couple of bottles of Moreau-Naudet to try. After visiting and tasting the wines from barrel and bottle, we became convinced that this was exactly the type of authentic producer we had been seeking. Stéphane Moreau (no relation to the other Moreau families in Chablis), is a devotee of Vincent Dauvissat, Didier Dagueneau (who helped him design his idiosyncratic labels), and Nadi Foucault (Clos Rougeard) and offers us basically everything we search for in quality growers of white Burgundy, starting with a remarkable patrimony of old vines (many parcels 50 years +) in superb terroirs (including Forêts!). Here is a youthful talent that has turned his family Domaine around by reintroducing the old, pre-industrial... learn more