Grapes: Chardonnay
Region: Burgundy, France
Vintage: 2022
Viticulture: Organic
Soils: Limestone
Vinification: The grapes are harvested by hand, fermented in stainless steel
Aging: lees without bâtonnage in used foudre
Fining or Filtering: None
Sulfur: Minimal at bottling
Notes from the Importer: Vendangeur Masqué or “masked harvester” is the label for De Moor wines made from sourced fruit or rented vines. They rent and work a small parcel of vines in Auxerre for this bottling.
Alice and Olivier de Moor live and work in Courgis a small village 7km southwest of Chablis. It is where Olivier grew up, and his “old” cellar, the part where he ages his Chablis in oak barrels, is underneath his grandparents’ house. From the hill where Courgis sits, the view is of vineyards over hills all the way to the Chablis Grand Crus.
Olivier says the landscape has changed a lot in his lifetime, that all the woods, bushes and fallow land that dotted the hills have disappeared in favor of vines.
Alice is from the Jura, and the two met at a large Chablis Estate, where Olivier was in charge of the vineyards. Both are enologists, graduates of the Dijon Enological School, with enough knowledge to take a radically different direction for their vines and wines than their neighbors. While the division of labor principally consists of Olivier in the vines and Alice in the cellar and office, both are equally omnipresent in every role and all decisions are made together.
