2013 Morgon, La Voûte St Vincent, Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes
Critics reviews
Anthony Rose, More over Nouveau, The Independent & anthonyrosewine.com, Oct 19th 2015
About this WINE
Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes
This fabled domaine, based in the town of Villié-Morgon, is today run by siblings Louis-Benoît and Claude-Emmanuelle Desvignes – the eighth generation of their family to make wine in Beaujolais. It is renowned for producing concentrated, age-worthy Morgon wines, which gain exceptional complexity with time in bottle.
Benoît and Emmanuelle (as they prefer to be called) have, in recent years, updated the winery and begun farming organically, but their method of vinification is the same as their forebears’: semi-carbonic maceration, with a grille to keep the cap submerged. The length of the maceration varies from cuvée to cuvée, being around 10 days for the relatively early-drinking Voûte Saint-Vincent, but longer for Javernières and Les Impénitents, of which only a tiny quantity is produced from a parcel of century-old vines.
From the 2018 vintage, the Desvignes are also producers of our Own Selection Beaujolais-Villages.
Gamay
A French variety planted predominately in Beaujolais where it is the grape behind everything from light and often acidic Beaujolais Nouveau through to the more serious and well-structured wines from the 10 cru villages. It takes its name from a hamlet just outside Chassagne-Montrachet and was at one stage widely planted on the Côte d`Or. However it was gradually phased out due to its poor yield and supposed poor quality of its wines.
The majority of Gamay wines in Beaujolais are labelled as Beaujolais or Beaujolais-Villages and are deliciously juicy, easy drinking, gulpable wines. Of more interest are the Cru wines from the 10 villages in the north of the region where the soil is predominantly granitic schist and where the vines are planted on gently undulating slopes. These can be well-structured, intensely perfumed wines, redolent of ripe black fruits and, while delicious young, will reward medium term cellaring.
Gamay is also grown in the Touraine region of the Loire where it produces soft, well-balanced, gluggable wines for drinking young.
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Description
Morgon, Voute St Vincent is grown on pink granite and sandy soils in the north of the appellation 40% destemmed, 12 to 13 days cuvaison. This wine is very pretty up front and then the concentration kicks in, very pure this year, with some crunchy minerals. Overall the Voute St Vincent offers Morgon structure with very pretty fruit.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
The Desvignes family found 2013 to be very complicated for the three months of spring, very wet, with lots of disease pressure because the weather kept changing. From 1st July it changed for the better, lovely September, harvest began on 1st October. 30 hl/ha compared to 19 in 2012 (37 in 2009, 33 in 2011)
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