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Domaine Mee Godard Morgon Cote du Py 2023

$5999

80 year old vines planted in the most desirable "Roches Bleues" soils—ancient decomposed schist, full of iron oxide and manganese—impart a distinct graphite minerality. It's blended from three climats named Chaponne, Côte du Py, and Morgon, a climat directly behind the winery, pictured above.

A two-faced wine that best encapsulates the Mee style. At first pour it's deep and dark, as if it's blacking out the sunshine that makes Beaujolais so joyful. But soon, with air, a decant, or a day later, the frivolity reveals itself as levity, spaciousness for a breathtaking experience.

While there's density to the dark cherry fruit, there's also bracing acidity and a forceful mineral core wrapped with crunchy, time-consuming tannins. Graphite is inescapable, along with licorice, very ripe strawberry, plums, spice, smoke, sunshine, and forest floor. It's so young and begs for some cellar time to resolve the mouthful of tannin, but even in its youth, with some air, it opens itself up to you, enticing you, daring you not to drink the whole bottle in one sitting. This is a masterpiece.  

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Antonio Galloni

93 points

"The 2023 Morgon Côte du Py, a blend of four plots, has an attractive nose that's less floral than the Corcelette yet shows a little more heft and concentration. There is more red fruit here, with touches of blood orange. The palate is very balanced, cohesive and poised, with crisp acidity, sapid red fruit tones and a bright, vigorous finish. This is one of Godard's best wines this vintage." —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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