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2020 Santenay, Clos des Mouches, 1er Cru, David Moreau, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Product: 20201171152
2020 Santenay, Clos des Mouches, 1er Cru, David Moreau, Burgundy

Description

Aromas of rose petals, red berries, plums and raw cocoa preface the 2020 Santenay 1er Cru Clos des Mouches Rouge, a medium to full-bodied, ample and lively wine with supple, powdery tannins and a fleshy core of fruit. It has turned out beautifully.

One of Santenay's emerging talents, David Moreau, took over some four hectares of his family's nine-hectare domaine in 2009, a share that he has augmented little by little ever since, arriving at a total of six today. He uses no herbicides and seeks to use treatments that are as innocuous as possible. Grapes are picked into small baskets, and reds see a gentle maceration with a certain proportion of whole bunch; whites are whole-cluster pressed and vinified in 300-litre barrels. 

In the cellar, Moreau feels he has found his personal style since 2013, emphasizing gentle extraction of tannin and pursuing structural elegance while hoping to produce wines that age. The style is delicate and charming, and the 2020 vintage has turned out very nicely.

Drink 2025 - 2040

William Kelley, Wine Advocate (August 2022)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer David Moreau

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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David Moreau

David Moreau has taken over part of his octogenerian grandfather’s wine domaine in Santenay in Côte de Beaune, beginning with the 2009 vintage. Prior to that David has worked with Olivier Lamy and Domaine de la Romanée Conti, as well as doing a stage in New Zealand at Neudorf. David is beginning with 5 of the family’s 9 hectares and suffice to say that significant changes in both viticulture and vinification have been made compared to the ancien regime. The vineyards were almost all planted in the 1960s, so David has old vines to work with. They are mostly pruned by cordon royat to minimise vigour, and the land is either ploughed or left with grass depending on the circumstance of a given plot.
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