The 2023 Morgon Cuvée Corcelette comes from well-drained granite soils and is aged for nine months in used barrel. It has a perfumed bouquet of incense that blossoms with aeration, as touches of brown spice infuse the red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied and transparent with finely chiseled tannins, exquisite balance and a dab of white pepper towards the sustained finish. This very classy Morgon is difficult to resist. - By Neal Martin on March 2025

• Vineyards are farmed organically

• Highly selective hand harvesting

• Traditional, whole cluster fermentation lasts from 3-4 weeks

• Aged for 6-9 months in used oak barrels and one 30-hectoliter foudre

• Barrels are minimum 2 years old

• Unfiltered and with no added SO2 during vinification

• Vine Age: 80 years

• Soils: Sandstone

Jean and Agnès Foillard took over his father’s Domaine in 1980. Most of their vineyards are planted on the Côte du Py, the famed slope outside the town of Villié-Morgon and the pride of Morgon. These granite and schist soils sit on an alluvial fan at the highest point above the town and impart great complexity. Jean follows the teachings of Jules Chauvet, a traditionalist winemaker.

Along with Marcel Lapierre, Jean-Paul Thévenet (wine #1 below!) and Guy Breton of this Gang of Four have returned to the old practices of viticulture and vinification: starting with old vines, never using synthetic herbicides or pesticides, harvesting late, rigorously sorting to remove all but the healthiest grapes, adding minimal doses of sulfur dioxide or none at all, also no filtration.