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Domaine Mee Godard Morgon Corcelette 2023

$5599

Eighty-year-old vines in the famed Corcelette vineyard make up the blend of this brooding yet supremely elegant wine. The age combined with very high-density plantings (11,000 vines per hectare) restricts yields, leading to tannic, concentrated fruit easily molded into Mee's vin de garde style.

The deep fuchsia color pops out of the glass, indicating it's being drunk a touch young to truly display its eventual kaleidoscopic capabilities. Requisite licorice sits at the core, surrounded by graphite, potted earth, stony shale, cola, and only a hint of fruit—blueberry, raspberry—along with some wood and a touch of baking spices. Tannins are super-fine, slightly sandy with sharp little tightly knit points, so high they almost block the storm of acidity raging across the palate.

An inky concentration of flavors along with the taut structure betrays its intention to sit in a cellar for some five years before it unfolds. Even now I loved this wine and recommend a long decant if you can't wait a few years to enjoy it later.

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Antonio Galloni

91 points

"The 2023 Morgon Corcelette, from vines on sandy soils, has a perfumed, quite floral bouquet, with touches of wilted rose petal infusing the red berry fruit aromas. The palate is fresh on the entry with sappy red fruit notes. This has more density than Godard's Moulin-à-Vents, with a dash of white pepper that perks up the finish. The 2023 has good potential." —Neal Martin

More about Domaine Mee Godard

Mee came to Beaujolais and started her domaine in the 2013 vintage. Imagine if someone came out of nowhere to create a new domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin and managed to start with parcels of Clos St. Jacques, Chambertin, and Clos de Bèze. Impossible! But that’s exactly what Mee did in Morgon, acquiring parcels in the three great crus of the village: Corcelette, Côte du Py, and Grand Cras.

The reason she could do this, of course, is money. Top Beaujolais costs about €30,000 per hectare. As Jon Bonné has pointed out in Punch magazine, even lowly Savigny-lès-Beaune in Burgundy commands a price around ten times that. (We're not aware of any recent trades but a hectare of Chambertin would no doubt cost many millions of euros.)

Of course, we don't love Mee just because she managed to acquire some prime parcels; her winemaking is stellar and takes full advantage of her terroir. Beaujolais producers usually find themselves making a choice. Do they use carbonic maceration and low-extraction techniques to produce easy-drinking quaffers? Or do they use a more Burgundian style of winemaking to produce structured wines that can be aged?

Mee Godard opts for a middle approach. She does some carbonic fermentation, some traditional fermentation, and then blends them together. Her wines are definitely delicious on release, and we are pretty sure they'll age well, too—her oldest wines are 2013s, so this hasn't really been put to the test yet.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Gamay

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Earthy , Juicy , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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