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This is a beautiful Morgon to serve cool with farm chicken, grilled pork and lamb, cow cheeses and charcuterie over the next  4 - 5 years. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bowler Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45986844934369,"sku":"21051","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/DescombesMorgon.jpg?v=1774055993"},{"product_id":"descombes-georges-2022-morgon-vieilles-vignes","title":"Descombes, Georges 2022 Morgon Vieilles Vignes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a classic version of the Descombes Morgon VV, showing ripe high-toned black raspberry and tart cherry aromas with plum, violet, citrus, earth and brown spice, really lovely. The elegant black and red fruits continue on the palate, which is quite saline and earthy as well, really showing the terroir. The wine is dense and structured but bright and balanced, finishing with refreshing acidity, citrus, cherry fruit, anise and mineral flavors. A recent bottle reminded us of why we consider the Descombes wines to be some of the best of the region. The fruit profile was beautifully developed and mature, the earthy flavors were well integrated on the mid-palate and in the long, mineral finish. Delicious now, this should be superb in three to five years, and should drink well till 2035 and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bowler Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46155180376289,"sku":"22337","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/Descombes_G2022MorgonVV-FB.jpg?v=1741291499"},{"product_id":"foillard-jean-2015-morgon-athanor","title":"Foillard, Jean 2015 Morgon Athanor","description":"","brand":"Private - ASUOVO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46351204614369,"sku":"23812","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/DSC01436.jpg?v=1744998227"},{"product_id":"lapierre-2014-morgon-s","title":"Lapierre 2014 Morgon \"S\"","description":"","brand":"Private - IL072025","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46621493559521,"sku":"25579","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/Lapierre-2014-Morgon-S.jpg?v=1751899932"},{"product_id":"burgaud-jean-marc-2023-morgon-cote-du-py-javernieres","title":"Burgaud, Jean-Marc 2023 Morgon Javernieres","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Javernières\" is a beautiful parcel on the south-east corner of the Cote de Py, where the thicker topsoil with more clay and iron oxide gives a more generous wine. The 2023 from Burgaud is powerful and dense, but with a lovely freshness as well. Perhaps more forward than the Desvignes' version, the wine shows gorgeous red and black fruits in a quite velvety style, but is certainly structured enough for 10 years of cellaring. \"\u003cem\u003eVibrant, mineral-driven red fruit on the nose that blossoms in the glass. Wonderful\u003c\/em\u003e.\" says Neal Martin Drink More Morgon!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regal Wine Imports","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46698693492961,"sku":"3760124220117","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/BurgaudJavernieres.png?v=1748098853"},{"product_id":"descombes-georges-2022-brouilly-vieilles-vignes","title":"Descombes, Georges 2022 Brouilly Vieilles Vignes","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorges Descombes makes a tiny quantity of Brouilly Vieilles Vignes - in some years we get none. The wine shows a deep red\/black color, with aromas of ripe blackberry and strawberry liqueur, with violet, black pepper and citrus - quite lush and pretty. Dark and earthy black fruits on the sapid well-structured palate, with good length of intense dark fruits  that are balanced by refreshing acidity in the finish. As with all the Descombes VV cuvées, there is a beautiful mineral\/earthy texture that frames the gorgeous fruit even in this rather warm vintage. A beautiful wine - drink it now over 2 or 3 days or cellar, perhaps best 2025 - 2032.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bowler Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46713886376161,"sku":"25881","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/DescombesBrouillyVV.jpg?v=1753669819"},{"product_id":"coudert-2024-fleurie-clos-de-la-roilette","title":"Coudert 2024 Fleurie Clos de la Roilette","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlain Coudert seems to make terrific wine every year and the 2024 Clos de la Roilette is no exception. A parade of rainy weather early in the year finally gave way to more rainy weather, with a little sunshine. Of course not as structured as the 2020- 2023s perhaps but the 2024s offer juicy, delicious drinking now with moderate ability to age. This lovely wine shows deep black cherry, blackberry, red currant and violet aromas with earth, citrus and spice. The palate is round with soft tannins but nice acidity, with velvety berry liqueur, beach plum, spice and licorice. Delicious! 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The soils are iron-rich, red clay with schist, pyrite and decomposed volcanic rocks. The wine is aged in 30-hectoliter concrete egg for 10 months. The Desvignes family considers \"Aux Pierres\" to be a true vin de garde. The 2024 is delicious young although is really built to age. It's structured and densely wound with compact mineral undertones. Fine tannins and juicy acid bring pleasure now, but it should continue to evolve beautifully over the next 10+ years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bowler Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47482089865441,"sku":"28146","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/Desvignes2022AuxPieresJaverniere.jpg?v=1710279673"},{"product_id":"desvignes-louis-claude-2024-morgon-cote-du-py","title":"Desvignes, Louis-Claude 2024 Morgon Cote du Py","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Desvignes Morgon \"Cote de Py\" is from 2.2 hectares of parcels on the Côte du Py, which is famous for its roche pourrie or \"rotten rock\" of manganese-rich, decomposed schist and its structured, long-lived wines. The vines are around 70 years old and have a cooler NE exposure at the top of the hill. They are certified-organic and harvested by hand. Generally around 50% of the bunches are left whole with the other 50% destemmed and put together into closed concrete vats for a partly carbonic fermentation; maceration is 13-14 days with a submerged cap and no punchdowns. The 2024 Côte du Py was aged in concrete egg for 10 months. Beautifully balanced and elegant in the 2024 vintage with nice mineral depth, pretty fruit and great tension. It's great now but will improve over the next 5-10 years or more. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bowler Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47482101596385,"sku":"28147","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3790\/6145\/files\/Desvignes_Louis-Claude2022MorgonCoteduPy-FB.jpg?v=1717181597"},{"product_id":"desvignes-louis-claude-2024-morgon-javernieres","title":"Desvignes, Louis-Claude 2024 Morgon Javernières","description":"\u003cp\u003eClaude-Emannuelle and Louis-Benoit are the seventh generation of winemakers at Desvignes and the domain was one of the first in Morgon to \"estate-bottle\" beginning in 1955. \"The spirit of our vinification is between the Beaujolais carbonic maceration and a Burgundy vinification,\" she says. The parcel \"Javernieres,\" on the lower southeast corner of the Cote de Py, is considered by the Desvignes as their best terroir. Here the thicker topsoil with more clay and iron oxide gives a more generous wine. The 2024 is drinking beautifully already, showing a deep red\/garnet color, with aromas of black raspberry, cherry and strawberry, floral and elegant. The palate is beautifully textured with chalky red and black fruits with floral, spice and citrus notes. 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The parcel is made up of 45+-year-old vines on sandy pink granite soils on a southeast-facing hillside in the western part of Corcelette, a vineyard that seems to give a bright and vibrant style of Morgon. This is a full, quite deep-colored Morgon, with punchy black cherry and cooked raspberry fruit and a snap of acidity reminiscent of plum skin. There is plenty of weight and breadth in the mid-palate and the texture is lovely and fine-grained a hall mark of this vineyard site and the sandy soils. 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The grapes are harvested by hand and the winemaking is consistent with most of the Desvignes wines, undergoing semi-carbonic fermentation and aged in concrete with no punchdowns. This is a fantastic wine and an incredible value - bright and lively with great texture and balance, more subtle fruit that mixes seamlessly with the strong mineral core. 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