100% Chardonnay

Food pairings: Delicate fish, shellfish, oysters, roast poultry, and lightly creamy vegetable dishes.

Winemaking: Hand harvested and fermented with indigenous yeasts in French oak barrels, of which about 10 to 30% are new. The wine spends about 8 months in barrel with regular lees stirring and a further 8 months on its lees in tank, and is bottled without fining and usually unfiltered.

Vineyards and terroir: Although labeled Bourgogne, this white comes entirely from vines in Chassagne-Montrachet, just across the road from the village-level vineyards, on primarily clay soils.

Family and history: The Moreau family's roots in Chassagne-Montrachet go back to 1809, when Auguste Moreau built the first cellar across from the La Maltroie vineyard. Marcel Moreau built up the estate in the 1930s, and in 1977 Alex's father Bernard put his own name on the label. Alex joined in 1995 and vinified more than 25 vintages there before taking full control in 2020; 2021 was the first vintage under the Domaine Alex Moreau label, which he now runs with his wife Martine.

In the pictures: Alex Moreau and his wife Martine at the domaine in Chassagne-Montrachet (courtesy of The Sorting Table).