This is a Chablis producer with multiple cuvées ranging from petit chablis to grand cru. I have no familiarity with this producer that I can recall and am wondering how it compares with a Drouhin, Brouchard or Fevre or others. While information from tasting notes is welcome, I'm also interested in how he makes his wines and his use of oak.

I've had both their petit and basic chablis and neither was particularly memorable(but that could just be a vintage thing-I think they were 04's). I do remember thinking also that I just should have payed a little more for some Fevre.

BB

Very cool video showing topo of Chablis and growing areas found here.

I've had some of their middle tier bottlings in the past, not sure if they are classfied as premier cru's or not. In any event, I have liked them much more than their entry level wines as already mentioned. They do have a bit of oak on them yet they still have some nice white burgundy characteristics. I can probably look up some additional info on vineyards in such if you need more specific info.

Brocard is a decent producer, making good wines at relatively affordable prices. If you have Raveneau and Dauvissat at the top, Fevre and some others in the next tier, than for me Brocard would be below that, though I've seen some recent discussions among knowledgeable folk that suggest they have maybe moved up a notch. I bought and drank their winesfrom 02 and 04 vintages, and while serviceable, they never struck a chord for me. Here's some text from their web site:

"Domaine Ste Claire, he built an ultra modern winery where he works side by side with is his son Julien and his girl Celine. Lately Jean Marc have been able to purchase some premier cru land as well, mainly in Beauregard, Montmains and Vaucoupin. Nevertheless grand cru lots is still as hard to get over as ever before. But with good relations with the growers Brocard are able to buy grapes and make grand cru wines as well.

Julien has been working with his fatherfor over 14 years, and it is easy to see that they are a tight team and share the same ideas in all main concerns of the winemaking. Now they have become four in the team since Jean Marcs son in law Fréderic Gueguen started to work with them, 6 years ago. As a result of this they now focus more and more on ecological winemaking, even though they have always tried to work as close to nature as possible. In some lots they are now even using biodynamical methods.

Furthermore the winemaking is carried out in fully respect of the chablis traditions with stainless steel, definitely no oak, but with the use of modern methods with computerized vinifications. Brocard was one of the first to find out the advantag with machine harvesting in order to get the grapes into the winery as quick and fresh as possible. The rich mineral and limestone soils called kimmeridgien with its fossile layers of oyster is very famous within the grand cru areas, but the consistens of the jura-period soil types are of course in the ground throughout a wider area. "

Pick wisely.
Vintage and terroir are important here, IMO.
Some very good wines.
Best, Jim

For a very limited reference point, I just had the 2007 Les Clos from Brocard on Monday. Undoubtedly a very good wine, but lacked the interest factor I get from most Fevre or C. Moreau's. It was very much in balance, but I think the acidity I like in young Chablis seemed lacking. FWIW I didn't find oak noticible, but i'm not phobic about it either.