Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes Morgon Javernières red 2023

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Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes Morgon Javernières 2023

RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2026 (Sept. 2025): 96/100. The Desvignes family delivers high-level 2023 wines. Javernières is still strict, tight, and masculine, but its coolness makes it flavorful.

The Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (K. Wells, March 2025): 91+/100. The 2023 Morgon Côte du Py Javernières is sourced from both north- and south-facing sites rooted in clay and blue stone soils. From the top, the nose reveals aromas of cherries, raspberries, jasmine tea, and orange blossoms. The wine opens elegantly with a rounded attack and slowly takes shape as the condensed core of sandstone-like tannins commands a lengthy, directed progression, as the flavor fades out and the acquired youthful tension comes to a head. DRINK DATE 2026-2036.

Technical sheet written by the domaine:

Name of the Climat : Côte du Py

Vineyard area for this cuvée : 2 Ha

Age of the Vines : 35 years on average

Nature of the Soils : at the foot of the Py hill, deep clay soils, imbued with iron oxide.

Exposure : Southeast

Vine Cultivation : The soils are plowed - no herbicides used - use of products approved for Organic Farming since 2005.
To never compact our plowed soils and respect microbial life, all vineyard work is done by hand (except for plowing and treatments)

Harvest : manual

Vinification : Traditional - 20% destemming

Fermentation Time : 9 Days

Aging Time in Tanks : 10 months in cement tanks


History: Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes in Beaujolais is like its stones: robust, worn, and rejuvenated by time, everything remains fixed and evolves continuously. It is behind this portal from 1722 and this typical arch of old winemaker houses that wines both surprising and powerful, the Morgon, age and improve.

Eight generations have succeeded each other at the Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes and have passed on this know-how that draws from tradition and enriches itself through perpetual questioning.