Tasted with Mee Godard in Juliénas, 20 February 2023.
Domaine Mee Godard
Morgon Le Haut
69910 Villié-Morgon
Tel: +33 6 66 47 00 64
www.meegodard.com
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A mix of covid protocols and training courses meant that we couldn’t fix a date last year to taste 2020s – but normal service was restored for Mee’s 2021s.
Mee on 2022:
“Yes I’m happy with 2022 – there was more wine than in 2021! We had 50mm of rain in June and that helped a lot.”
Mee on 2021:
“I lost about 50% of my volume – it was hard – it was the combination of the frost and the unending rain which was perfect for the maladies – I had plenty of black rot. I started my harvest on 14 September – there was lots of heterogeneity in this vintage and in 15 days there was no augmentation of the degrees so I’m sure that there was some blocking of the maturities. All the wines in 2021 were 12.5° – you can say lighter versus other recent vintages. It wasn’t much easier in the cuverie – everything was hard in 2021 – except for selling – everything is long gone – but that’s not a surprise with 50% fewer bottles. After the fermentations I didn’t want to talk about the wines – it was / they were – too hard. Maybe it was a little psychological – locals hadn’t seen a vintage like it since 1945 in Beaujolais…”
2021 was the year of conversion to AB labels.
The wines…
Not strong colours but still strong wines! Fine when the need to bee – broader and more structured when they need to be. Some wines are worth a special search.
2021 Beaujolais Blanc
Vines in Belleville – alluvial soil and young vines – but only 10 hl/ha in this vintage..
There’s a little perfume here – quite attractive. Round in the mouth – a little structure but nothing hard. That’s a juicy and rather tasty wine – plenty of finishing concentration and slightly spicy at the end – chalky too – yum!
2021 Morgon Corcelette
Bottled mid-November – ‘the vines didn’t suffer too much here – not like the others…’
Fresh, red fruit, slightly rounded at the corners – attractive. Hmm – that’s lovely in the mouth – open, architectural – becoming more floral and juicy in the finishing flavours.
2021 Morgon Grand Cras
Here was about 1/3rd of a normal volume.
That’s a very lovely nose – slightly rounded but fine, very attractive with complex red fruit. Mouth-filling, complex, pure, faintly grained with tannin – that’s a simply excellent wine – super length too – yes!
Lighter in the top notes but this starts with a super width of aroma. More direct – though still with width – growing juicy, properly structured too. Super finishing again – what a wine!
This is the number of Mee’s mysterious parcel selection on schist and bluestone in Côte du Py. Only wood elevage with some new oak – a mix of foudres, demi-muids and barrels but looking to mark the minimum possible.
More direct – there’s a vibrancy to this nose. In the mouth, like the nose, more direct – structured too but nothing painfull – here is more depth and complexity of flavour – this is a beauty – faintly framed with some dryness of tannin but no austerity – hardly! For the vintage, this is a great wine – even better finishing than the great finishes of the last two wines – bravo!
Much deeper, more coffee-style in this nose – but growing in depth of fruit too. Broad, there are extra points of complexity here – not quite dynamic but bubbling with complexity and energy – there’s intensity to these finishing flavours too – this is really soooo good! Bravo!