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Domaine Christian Moreau Pere et Fils - Chablis Grand Cru Valmur 2018 (750ml)
Price: $119.99
| Producer | Domaine Christian Moreau Pere et Fils |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Burgundy |
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| Subregion | Chablis |
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| Varietal | Chardonnay |
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| Vintage | 2018 |
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| Sku | 04344 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Producer Description
Attractive floral aromas with a hint of honeysuckle, green apple, toast, and mandarin oranges. Extremely well-balanced structure with a crystal clear juicy acidity, layered with minerality. A truly powerful and complex wine.
Vinous: 94-96 Points
The 2019 Chablis Valmur Grand Cru was cropped at 25hl/ha from 45- to 70-year-old vines and matured in a mixture of 1- to 4-year-old barrels, for bottling in 2021. This has a very perfumed and slightly better-defined bouquet than the Blanchot. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry, ripe but tense with superb mineralité already in evidence. Focused all the way through to the lingering finish, this is an outstanding Valmur in the making.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
Opulent and creamy, featuring peach, honey, apple pie and lemon flavors, backed by lively acidity. This unfolds to a lingering spicy finish. Drink now through 2025.
James Suckling: 92-93 Points
A southeast parcel that has such effortless, smooth build and impressive length of peaches and mangoes with apricots and a robust, flowing finish. Drink or hold.
Burghound: 90-93 Points
Once again the wood treatment is generous but it stops short of being intrusive on the nose of mineral reduction, tidal pool and quinine aromas. There is wood on the palate as well as on the concentrated, intense and muscular flavors that deliver fine length on the citrus-tinged and very dry finish. This isn't refined and the wood isn't subtle but once again there is good development potential.
Wine Enthusiast
The appetizing nose on this wine offers creamy, nutty and lemon-scented freshness. The palate adds supersmooth, juicy ripeness that suggests yellow apple, juicy Mirabelle and a touch of honey from the ripeness of 2018. There is wonderful freshness, however, and cool, chalky depth that turns this into a balanced, rounded, mouthwatering wine with real dimension. The finish is zesty and long. Drink 2022–2040.
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