With four generations of experience, Domaine Jolly is known for producing traditional, mineral-driven Chablis wines. Now under the control of Denis Jolly, the estate consists of 17 hectares (42 acres) of Petit Chablis, Chablis and Chablis 1er Cru “Fourchaume.” With stainless steel cold temperature fermentation, these wines show classic Chablis character, with great minerality, superb lively fruit, and a wonderful balance of acidity. With four generations of experience, Domaine Jolly is known for producing traditional Chablis wines. Lovely citrus aromas lead way to fruit-forward flavors of fresh pear with a rounded mouthfeel. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.This wine is a beautiful pale yellow color tinged with green. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.Ĭhablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. As such, the wines of Christian Moreau Pere et Fils are remarkable for their authenticity, distinctiveness, and exquisite quality. With previous experience in New Zealand, Fabien is a visionary young winemaker who is a sincere adherent to the tenants of terroir. Additionally, grapes for every wine from the Chablis AC to the Les Clos Grand Cru are hand-picked.įabien Moreau became the winemaker with the 2002 vintage, and is already producing remarkable results. The Moreau's winemaking philosophy is non-interventionist at its core, entailing biodynamic practices aimed toward creating low-yield, high-quality harvests. Every parcel is harvested by hand to bring out the very best from each vineyard. The Domaine holdings are located in the best oriented parcels, and bottlings include Grand Crus Les Clos, Valmur, Vaudésir, Blanchot, and Les Clos des Hospices (a Monopole from the Moreau family), Premier Cru Vaillon, as well as Chablis AC, and some Petit Chablis. Free of any personal involvement with the negociant company that his family founded and sold, with his son Fabien they founded Domaine Christian Moreau Pére et Fils in 2001 and set up their winemaking operation in the very heart of the Chablis country, at the foot of its famous Grands Cru vineyards. Christian Moreau, one of the leading figures in Chablis, is producing the wines he loves under his own name.
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