After 22 vintages quietly shaping the wines at his family’s Domaine Bernard Moreau, Benoît Moreau stepped into the spotlight in 2020 with a domaine of his own. He brought with him 4.2 hectares of prized vineyards in Chassagne-Montrachet and Saint-Aubin. These are parcels he had farmed for decades, now tended biodynamically and entirely by hand, horse, or small tractor. A patient, intuitive grower, Benoît favors tressage over hedging, native yeasts over control, and time over intervention. His whites are pressed gently and raised over two winters with little new oak. His reds are perfumed, silken, and shaped by a light touch. The wines hum with clarity and tension, an unmistakable signature from one of Burgundy’s most compelling new voices.

Champs-Gain lies just below the hallowed ground of En Cailleret, its red clay soils known for producing wines with both flesh and finesse. Benoît’s small holding sits high on the slope, where the clay thins and limestone asserts itself. The 70-year-old vines reach bedrock quickly here, giving rise to a deeper mineral expression that tempers the site’s natural generosity.

The 2023 comes from purchased organic fruit, which is a rarity in this portfolio—but one chosen with care. Fermented with ambient yeast and aged 16 months in used barrels, the wine is expressive and precise, with ripe pear, yellow stone fruit, and chalky lift. It is a seductive premier cru with breadth, elegance, and a graceful line of mineral tension that marks it unmistakably as Moreau’s. Quietly remarkable, this wine has all the makings of a future favorite, one that builds its following bottle by bottle.

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