Champagne Daniel Moreau
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Vineyard
Champagne Daniel Moreau is based in Vandières, in the Marne Valley, where Bastien Moreau tends 16 certified-organic parcels spanning just ten kilometres of family terroir, a precision of scale that is genuinely rare in Champagne. The estate's roots run to 1875, but it was Daniel Moreau, Bastien's father, who consolidated these plots in the 1970s and 1980s and introduced varieties beyond the founding Meunier. Bastien took sole charge in 2005 and earned the Organic Agriculture (AB) certification in 2020, the result of three decades of progressive reduction in chemical inputs and sustained attention to soil health, biodiversity, and the auxiliary fauna of the vineyard. No pesticides, weedkillers, or insecticides are used; soil work takes priority, and the guiding principle is to intervene early and leave the least possible trace. Meunier remains the house's spearhead variety, the range now drawing on all three classic Champagne grapes, each calibrated to express the character of Vandières.
Winemaking
The Daniel Moreau house philosophy is summed up in one word: precision. Harvest proceeds plot by plot (one press equals one vat), yielding 12 distinct lots; the juice settles for at least 24 hours before fermenting with indigenous yeasts at 20°C for 14 days in 12 thermo-regulated stainless-steel vats totalling 39,600 litres. Approximately 10% of the wines mature for a year in seven old 1,500-litre Burgundy white wine casks (neutral, seasoned wood that adds texture and breadth without imposing oak) before the assemblage is completed. Malolactic fermentation is always carried out in full; the wines are lightly filtered, bottled in spring, and aged for 24 to 36 months on their lees, with at least five months of post-disgorgement rest. The result is a small, carefully articulated range of champagnes, honest, unhurried, and deeply rooted in one compact corner of the Marne Valley.
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