Wine of the Week: Chablis 2007, Christian Moreau

Posted by Andrew Chapman, 11:00pm 22/02/2010. Leave a comment

Reading the the first report from our buying team in Burgundy gave me a bit of a thirst for a good bottle of Burgundy.

Unfortunately the tasting budget didn't run to a bottle of Bachelet Monnot Puligny Montrachet, which I've had my eye on even before the team left for Burgundy (note:for the value concious amongst us, or those just looking for a very good every day white, Bachelet Monnot Bourgogne Blanc is, to all intents and purposes, a baby Puligny)

So my sights swung north to Chablis (OK, I suppose not 'technically Burgundy, it being a region on its own in fact. But most people group it in with Burgundy - so we will too, for the purposes of this blog)

Six generations of the Moreau family have made wine at this domain - so plenty of history and experience! 47 year old vines and a near perfect aspect combine with that experience to provide the building blocks for extraordinary Chablis. All have a wonderful minerality - almost as if the kimmeridgien calcareous clay that the vines are gown on has somehow imbued the wine with some of their character. Terroir and soil composition are something that many talk about in terms of their contribution towards how a wine tastes; Jamie Goode talks a lot of sense about terroir in this article on his web site.

Anyway, for tonight's supper I was making chicken stir-fry, so wasn't sure how well wine and food would match each other. Normally I think of Chablis is one of the most food-friendly wines possible. In the end I decided to open the wine while cooking and catching up on the days news with Alison.

Chablis, Christian Moreau 2007:From the first sip I was won over.  Smells sea-fresh; like a bracing walk along the shore-line mid-winter as the salty fresh air asails your nostrils! Sappy and tart and fresh - like ripe green fruit - with an almost saline quality to the taste. Precise, chiselled almost energetic in its nervous energy. The mineral quality really comes through, inter-woven with white fruits and even a spice element. A wine that really builds in the glass - and drinks all too quickly!

Given how much I loved this wine, and that we are currently enjoying something of a Burgundy-centric week, the Moreau Chablis seems like the perfect choice for this weeks Wine of the Week...

Order 12 bottles or more of this weeks WoW and get 10% off!

Now, what to drink with that stir-fry....

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