Domaine Alice et Olivier de Moor Chablis Bel Air, Burgundy, France

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The 2000 Chablis Bel Air offers aromas reminiscent of smoky pears and toast. It is broader, meatier, and more opulent than the Rosette, yet less focused and reveals a slightly shorter finish. Sun-baked wet gravel, chalk, creamed toast, ripe pears, and spices are found in the deep, highly expressive core of this great Chablis. Medium-bodied and velvety-textured, this wine has loads of depth, concentration, and fruit. Drink it over the next 5 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

Steely Chablis, racy with a beam of clean, pure fruit and mineral character. Razorlike texture, without flesh and opulence, but with age it could turn into a beauty. Best from 2003 through 2010. 300 cases made, 100 cases imported.??–PM??Region: France / Burgundy / Chablis Select to Add