Colette Morgon Beaujolais 2022
This comes from a single organically farmed plot of 80 year old vines that after a native ferment in cement is bottled with low amounts of sulfur. The nose opens with a beguiling mix of violets, earth, plum, dark cherry, and just there spice. On the palate this has good presence for a Beaujolais and a flavor set of black flowers, mixed black fruits and gentle earth. Delightful deep wine. - D&M TASTING NOTES
IMPORTER NOTES:
ABOUT THE PRODUCER: "Domaine de Colette is located in the small village of Lantignié, regarded as the top village in the cru of Regnié, and less than 1 kilometer from the border of Morgon. It is owned and run by the humble Jacky Gauthier (with his wife Evelyne), whose family has been making wine for several generations. It was his father René who officially created Domaine de Colette in 1953.
The soils at Colette are worked organically in an effort to promote healthy and vigorous root systems. Only vegetable-based fertilizers are used. They shallow-plow between the vines during plant dormancy to force the roots down into the subsoil (and thus hopefully take on more of the terroir characteristics of each cru). They limit vine treatments during the year and intervene only when completely necessary. A green harvest is performed to give more concentrated grapes. Harvest is by hand, and only healthy grape clusters are emptied into the tank. Jacky works prudently, limiting yields in his vineyards with his old vines, spraying only when the health of the plants is at risk, using a pied de cuve to begin fermentation, and aging the wine in neutral, cement tanks.
The result, with each and every wine, is a delicious mouthful of ripe Gamay, whose granite soils provide minerality and whose excellent exposure allows the burst of the Beaujolais fruit we know and love."