The Bernard Moreau wine estate is located in Burgundy, in the village of Chassagne-Montrachet. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the Moreau family has been heavily involved in the history of this village, notably by building a cellar facing the famous La Maltroie cru. It was in 1930 that Bernard Moreau began to develop the estate, by acquiring plots located on the great terroirs of the appellation. This tradition has been perpetuated until today, making it possible to find certain first growths of Chassagne-Montrachet in red and not in white.
Today, brothers Alexandre and Benoît Moreau have joined their father at the estate after having surveyed the vineyards of the New World for a few years. Alexandre Moreau is in charge of the cellar and Benoît Moreau takes care of the vines. Their style of wine is vibrant and aims to be the most faithful translation of the terroirs from which they come. It is in particular for this reason that the Moreau brothers do not use synthetic inputs in the vines and have followed biodynamic principles for a few years.
In the cellar, aging is longer than before, but the winegrowers limit new wood and batonnage as much as possible, thus preserving the brilliance of the fruit.
94+ Points Wine Advocate
Moreau’s 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot has turned out brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with an incipiently complex bouquet of pear, white flowers, blanched almonds, lime zest and iodine. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, with superb concentration, excellent tension at the core and a long, racy finish. This is the finest Morgeot I’ve tasted from the 2017 vintage. And as I wrote last year, this is very much a wine to forget in the cellar while drinking the domaine’s more precocious premiers crus, as it is built for the long haul.
94 Points John Gilman
For many years, the premier cru of Morgeot was the one in Chassagne that I was most familiar with, as this was the wine from Domaine Ramonet that was most available in the New York market in my early years in the wine trade and I would drink it whenever I had the opportunity. So, tasting Alex Moreau’s archetypical 2017 Morgeot brought back a wealth of memories of those early days, as this wine is as great and classic a young Morgeot as one could hope to find in the vintage. The nose soars from the glass in a great blend of apple, lemon, chalky soil tones, spring flowers, vanillin oak, lemon zest and just a whisper of the buttery elements that will come with bottle age. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, bright and seamlessly balanced, with a rock solid core, great soil signature, vibrant acids and outstanding focus and grip on the long and very promising finish. Great juice.