Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2018

Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2018This particular wine is the first of two cuves that focus on Corcelette's pure, sandy, granitic soils. This soil generates wines of great perfume and finer, rounder tannins than those of Morgon's more schist influenced terroirs. 2018's healthy yields allowed Bouland to separate his 'younger' vines in this area 60 years on average (so hardly young!) from his very oldest bush vines which are bottled in the Vieilles Vignes cuve below. It was whole bunch

This particular wine is the first of two cuvées that focus on Corcelette's pure, sandy, granitic soils. This soil generates wines of great perfume and finer, rounder tannins than those of Morgon's more schist-influenced terroirs. 2018's healthy yields allowed Bouland to separate his 'younger' vines in this area--60 years on average (so hardly young!)--from his very oldest bush vines which are bottled in the Vieilles Vignes cuvée below. It was whole-bunch fermented with indigenous yeasts and raised in very old foudre (large cask). This is a superb start to what are four stunning Morgons this vintage. Of the four, this is the prettiest and, in some ways, the most ready to drink. It's a super-classy, super-pure Morgon with perfume and flavours of red berries and rose and a fluid, juicy personality; it's gently powdery in the mouth. The finish is built on perfume. A marvellous wine of great finesse (in the context of Beaujolais), that is already delicious, but will certainly age!