Tasted in Chablis with Virginie ‘Mimi’ Naudet, plus her daughter and guard-dog, 06 May 2024.
Domaine Moreau-Naudet
4 chemin de la Vallée de Valvan
89800 Chablis
Phone: +33 3 86 42 14 83
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Virginie on the hail of 2024:
“Vaillons is broken. 5 of our 11 hectares are really bad and that’s including Valmur. We wait for the sun so hopefully the vegetation will return.”
Virginie on 2022:
“The first two wines are bottled, the rest are tank samples but for bottling in the next days. But the sales of 2022s are really good – call it the recovery phase after the lack of 2021s – we’ll see what we do with 2023 prices based on how bad 2024 turns out to be !!”
The wines…
Always a pleasure to taste here – and always a domaine where the wines just keep improving in bottle – some great wines too !!
The Petit Chablis and the Chablis are sealed with DIAM.
2022 Petit Chablis
From one parcel in Chichée – a mix of 50 and 20-year-old vines – almost 3 hectares worth, with almost 1 year of elevage. Racked together will bottle in less than a week – the first bottling of the 2022s.
Easy, fresh pure. Mouth-filling, juicy, good concentration. Long finishing with tiny bitters, making this wine already delicious.
2022 Chablis
The largest single parcel is of 3.5 hectares – Prehy and Courgis the location of the vines.
A larger nose of fine clarity. Large in the mouth too, a small tannic zestiness – making for a long and tasty finish. That’s lovely…
And a new wine:
2022 Chablis 1er Beauregard
Here and Thomas Pico are the only bottlers I know – it’s new here with all tank elevage. The vines are now 25 years old. Previously the harvest was sold.
A smaller, more shy nose. Hmm – this is effusive and energetic really broad and complex and I like the shape of this…
2022 Chablis 1er Vaillons
Have Epinottes, Roncières and Sécher – the latter from almost 70-year-old vines.
A tiny noble reduction to start. In the mouth, this has a juicy, almost bubbly, energy. Simply a broad and joyous flavour!
2022 Chablis 1er Montmains
From ‘real’ Montmains, Vieux Moulot and Butteaux – No barrels used for this cuvée.
Also a wonderful depth and complexity to this aromatic. Larger scale and a little more structured too – really a large wine. What a beautiful and also powerful wine – wait two years and then enjoy…
2022 Chablis 1er Forêts
Also a pretty and fine nose – just more elegant than the Montmains at this stage. Large scale again – slowly fading. It will be super…
Fresh and vibrant – some width to these aromas too – that’s a great invitation. Really mouth-filling, direct, almost linear intensity here – another great MdT in 2022.
0.6 ha, worked by horse. Tasted from a stainless-steel ‘barrel.’
Airy aromatics but with width again, there’s more density here. It’s the definition of fluid yet retaining such weight that makes this distinct. Then the flavour bursts wide over the palate – great wine.