2020 Chateau de Beru "Clos Beru Monopole" Chablis

The Béru family has owned the historical Château de Béru domain for 400 years. Until the philloxera crisis, when all the vines were uprooted, at the beginning of the 20th century, the domain used to rely solely on the wine for its revenues. It was only in 1987, that the Comte Éric de Béru, out of passion for wine, undertook to replant the entire vineyard, and in particular, the famous Clos Béru.  In Beaune, there is a terrific bookshop called Athenaeum that also hosts one of the city's better wine shops. A chat with the staff always results in new discoveries of what will be hot in the US several years later. This is how I discovered Château de Béru. The Béru estate belongs to a handful of small Chablis estates that have begun to invert the classic hierarchy of top Chablis domaines. Collectors and Chablis lovers who enjoy the wines of Pattes Loups (Thomas Pico), Moreau-Naudet, and Alice et Olivier de Moor will find themselves thrilled with the offer today. In particular, these share