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The Valmur vineyard covers around 12 hectares in total and forms a small valley in the heart of the Grand Cru slope. It’s wedged between Vaudésir and Grenouilles on its left and Les Clos on its right. An extreme mesoclimate, Valmur gets very cold in winter and hotter than average in summer. It’s a site that lends itself to authoritative and intense wines of serious depth and power.
The domaine farms a 0.6-hectare parcel (worked by horse) that was planted in 1978. Situated next-door to the vines of Raveneau, Moreau’s plot is a cooler, shaded site that takes time to warm up. Combined with the steepness of the slope, this leads to the wine’s strong mineral, saline imprint, which shines through the depth and texture. Again, Moreau harvested a tiny crop this year—the vines suffered a little from the summer drought—and the wine was vinified without any oak, in three stainless steel ‘barrels’.