2011 Morgon, Côte du Py, Louis Claude Desvignes, Beaujolais

2011 Morgon, Côte du Py, Louis Claude Desvignes, Beaujolais

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2011 Morgon, Côte du Py, Louis Claude Desvignes, Beaujolais

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This cuvée on the other hand is built for the long term. The young team of Claude-Emmanuelle Desvignes and her brother Benoît are doing a great job here. The very intense jet black colour indicates immediately the concentrated nature of this wine. The nose is almost brutal in its youth, but not to worry: be patient. There is a huge density of flavour, black fruit with a touch of chocolate, real quality on every part of the palate.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Beaujolais Buyer, October 2012

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Wine Advocate91/100
The 2011 Morgon Cote du Py comes from their two-hectare parcel on the extinct volcano. It has a remarkably deep color, more Burgundy than Beaujolais. The nose is still quite closed and broody with black cherries, cassis, a touch of cedar and black olive. The palate is structured and masculine firm and slightly dry tannins, good depth of fruit, but quite grippy and recalcitrant toward the finish. Very fine, but give this three or four years in the cellar. Drink 2017-2027.
Neal Martin - 26/06/2014 Read more
Anthony Rose91
Deeply coloured, there’s some sweet dark fruit in the aroma, and the palate is concentrated and vinous with a liquid black cherry and blackberry richness and youthful vigour, whose robust tannins and gentle spine of astringency will soften nicely drunk with char grilled meats. Another two to three years in bottle wouldn’t hurt .
Anthony Rose, More over Nouveau, The Independent & anthonyrosewine.com, Oct 19th 2015 Read more
Victoria Moore
Those familiar with the 10 crus will know Morgon is one of the most masculine, with a distinctive weight and dark intensity. The Côte du Py is a schist and granite slope, considered to produce some of the best grapes. This wine supports that theory.
Victoria Moore, The Daily Telegraph, January 2013 Read more

About this WINE

Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes

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.

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Morgon

Morgon

With 1100 ha of vines, Morgon is the second largest Cru after Brouilly, producing wines that are only marginally less powerful than those of Moulin-à-Vent. Certainly Morgon’s are the firmest in the region, with a bouquet of great purity and compact Gamay fruit. Morgon needs more time than other Crus before it can be broached - normally 2-3 years for its most serious exponents – and develop its rich, savoury flavours which lead to a Pinot Noir-like maturity. 

The ‘Classico’ heart of the Morgon region is the Mont du Py, just south of the commune of Villié-Morgon. The finest wines almost exclusively come from its Côte de Py slope, whose aspect and rich schistous soil contribute to greater ripeness, and yield wines that are denser than anywhere else in the appellation. As you would expect from a region of this size the character and quality of Morgon can vary considerably, but the best are as good, and as sturdy and long-lived, as any other Beaujolais you will find.  

Recommended Producers: François Calot, Maurice Gaget, Louis-Claude Desvignes.

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Gamay

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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