Eléonore Moreau

The Moreau family has been farming their own 13 hectares of vines organically for over a decade. The vines were all planted by Laurent Moreau in the early 1980s on land that the family has owned for generations in Poilly-sur-Serein, located in the southeast corner of the Chablis appellation on typical clay-limestone terroir. For years, Laurent ran a polyculture farm, growing grapes and selling them to the cooperative, alongside grains and milk from their herd of dairy cows.

Laurent’s daughter Eléonore returned to the domaine in 2011, immediately taking on a new focus on winemaking, while others in her family oversaw other aspects of the family farm. By the time Eléonore took over in 2016, she insisted on unusually long aging for all the wines, organic certification, and a rigorous attention to work in the vines and the cellar. Eléonore has a rare vision in Chablis, focused on producing exceptional wines while remaining an excellent steward of their land.

The wines are vinified in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks and then aged for 12-18 months on the lees in stainless steel, an unusually long time for Chablis, where wines are often released less than six months after harvest. The wines are produced in the same exact fashion from vineyard to bottle. The difference is the terroir – Petit Chablis is grown on Portlandian limestone, while Chablis comes from Kimmeridgian limestone.