Assiduous readers of this publication have noticed my passion for this estate’s wines in past issues. Yet, what this couple achieved in 2000, with their good but not extraordinary terroirs, is mind-boggling. Produced from a one hectare hillside parcel, the 2000 Chablis Rosette explodes from the glass with creamed minerals immersed in a myriad of spices. It satisfies both the hedonist’s thirst for a rich, lush, viscous, opulent wine as well as the terroirist’s hunger for a complex, delineated Chablis packed with sea shells, smoke, minerals, liquid stones, and salt syrup. Armed with superb depth, this deeply ripe, medium bodied offering also reveals a stunningly long finish. Enjoy this beauty over the next 5-6 years. The de Moors are the Jean-Marc Joblot of the Chablisien: Producers whose wines far exceed the expectations given the supposed potential of their terroirs. God only knows what they’d be capable of if they owned parcels in Chablis’s famed grand crus.These are the finest values I’ve encountered from Burgundy in ages! Alice and Olivier de Moor are a dying breed, vignerons in the Chablisien who cut no corners. Yields are kept moderate, harvests are performed by human beings (as opposed to machines, the norm in Chablis), grapes are sorted, only indigenous yeasts are employed, the wines are fermented as well as aged in used barrels, and they are neither fined nor filtered prior to bottling. The de Moors’s dedication and conscientious work ethic, when combined with a great vintage (as was 2000 in Chablis), brings about results such as these.Importer: A Roy Cloud Selection, Vintage ‘59 Imports, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 966-9218
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