Louis Moreau’s domaine includes 22 acres at this southeast-facing cru, where the oldest parcels date to 1976. Like all of his wines, this ferments with ambient yeasts and sees no oak, gaining all of its fatness and...
Louis Moreau’s domaine includes 22 acres at this southeast-facing cru, where the oldest parcels date to 1976. Like all of his wines, this ferments with ambient yeasts and sees no oak, gaining all of its fatness and textural satin from the grape skins and yeasts in the fine lees. The wine’s pale limestone abrasion smooths as the depth of flavor extends—like a fleshy Champagne, or, as Whitney Asher (Brava, Lenox, Mass.), described it, “a lobster shell scent—it makes me want to eat lobster rolls in the sunshine,” as we were tasting it on a rainy July day.