Chateau des Jacques Morgon Cote du Py 2016
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With a deep red cherry color, with walnut and little red fruits aromas, this wine has silky tannins that will help it to age.
It will be a perfect partner for « charcuteries », Italian foods, red and white meats when young. Getting older, it will be perfect with game meat. This wine will be perfect drunk young but will also be able to age 5-10 years in perfect conditions of temperature and humidity.
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Morgon's most famous vineyard is on a long, steep slope. It has produced this perfumed, ripe wine. The tannins are fully integrated into the fruit giving richness and leaving plenty of room for acidity.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This was a very creditable performance from the 2016 Morgon Côte du Py, a medium to full-bodied, concentrated wine with tangy acids and an attractive bouquet of blackberries, wild berries and cracked black pepper. Though affected, yields were less impacted by hail in Morgon than in Moulin-à-Vent, and the wine is a bit more classic in profile as a result.
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James Suckling
Decadent and rich with dark berries, wild mushrooms and spices. Cinnamon, too. Full-bodied, tight and juicy. Firm and reserved tannins run clearly through the center. Drink or hold.
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A brooding, light-bodied red, with black chocolate, graphite and licorice details marking the black cherry coulis and raspberry tart flavors that are focused and backed by solid acidity. Features a rich finish, with light, velvety tannins. Drink now through 2024. 251 cases made, 50 cases imported.
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Delightfully playful, but also capable of impressive gravitas, Gamay is responsible for juicy, berry-packed wines. From Beaujolais, Gamay generally has three classes: Beaujolais Nouveau, a decidedly young, fruit-driven wine, Beaujolais Villages and Cru Beaujolais. The Villages and Crus are highly ranked grape growing communes whose wines are capable of improving with age whereas Nouveau, released two months after harvest, is intended for immediate consumption. Somm Secret—The ten different Crus have their own distinct personalities—Fleurie is delicate and floral, Côte de Brouilly is concentrated and elegant and Morgon is structured and age-worthy.
The bucolic region often identified as the southern part of Burgundy, Beaujolais actually doesn’t have a whole lot in common with the rest of the region in terms of climate, soil types and grape varieties. Beaujolais achieves its own identity with variations on style of one grape, Gamay.
Gamay was actually grown throughout all of Burgundy until 1395 when the Duke of Burgundy banished it south, making room for Pinot Noir to inhabit all of the “superior” hillsides of Burgundy proper. This was good news for Gamay as it produces a much better wine in the granitic soils of Beaujolais, compared with the limestone escarpments of the Côte d’Or.
Four styles of Beaujolais wines exist. The simplest, and one that has regrettably given the region a subpar reputation, is Beaujolais Nouveau. This is the Beaujolais wine that is made using carbonic maceration (a quick fermentation that results in sweet aromas) and is released on the third Thursday of November in the same year as harvest. It's meant to drink young and is flirty, fruity and fun. The rest of Beaujolais is where the serious wines are found. Aside from the wines simply labelled, Beaujolais, there are the Beaujolais-Villages wines, which must come from the hilly northern part of the region, and offer reasonable values with some gems among them. The superior sections are the cru vineyards coming from ten distinct communes: St-Amour, Juliénas, Chénas, Moulin-à-Vent, Fleurie, Chiroubles, Morgon, Regnié, Brouilly, and Côte de Brouilly. Any cru Beajolais will have its commune name prominent on the label.