Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes Morgon Montpelain red 2022

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Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes Morgon Montpelain red 2022

RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2025 (August 2024): 93/100. Montplain is somewhat reserved, despite notes of black fruits and licorice. It needs a year or two to reveal itself.

The Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (K. Wells, May 2024), 90+/100. The 2022 Morgon Montpelain opens with aromas of spiced blueberries, cassis, peonies, and slate. Tightly wound and high in energy, it has a structure of chalky tannins that dust the cheeks and bright acids that create a synergetic resistance along the palate. Medium to full-bodied, generous berry-fruited notes play a supporting role, progressing swiftly along the palate with zippy haste. This wine will surely need a few years to fall into place. DRINK DATE 2026-2037.

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

Appellation: Morgon
Name of the Climat: Douby
Vineyard area for this cuvée: 0.74 Ha
Age of the Vines: 80 years
Soil Type: Clay loams.
Exposure: East
Vine Growing: The soils are plowed - no herbicides used - use of products approved in Organic Agriculture since 2005. To never compact our plowed soils and respect microbial life, all vineyard work is done by hand (except for plowing and treatments).

Tasting: From the northeastern part of the Morgon cru near Lancié, this beautiful cuvée evokes delicious notes of black fruits and graphite on the nose. It offers a balanced mouthfeel, both powerful and indulgent. It has a beautiful density with fine tannins that provide lovely precision. This wine will perfectly bridge the pleasure and digestibility of the Voûte Saint-Vincent and the power of the Côte du Py.

History: The domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes in Beaujolais, in Villié-Morgon, is like its stones: robust, worn, and rejuvenated by time, everything remains fixed and evolves constantly. It is behind this portal from 1722 and this vault typical of old winemaker houses that delicate, surprising, and powerful wines age and improve. Eight generations have succeeded one another at the Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes, passing down this know-how that draws from tradition and enriches itself through perpetual questioning.