Tasted with Mee Godard in Morgon, 29 February 2024.
Domaine Mee Godard
Morgon Le Haut
69910 Villié-Morgon
Tel: +33 6 66 47 00 64
www.meegodard.com
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Mee on 2023:
“This year there was plenty of rain – which was very good – but it brought worries about black rot. Harvesting was complicated because some of the parcels were hit by hail – we had at least 4 different days with hail – the parcel in front of the house was hailed just a couple of hours after we harvested the grapes! I had only 4 parcels that were not hailed in 23. On the positive side, we had a lot of grapes so could call it a green harvest but not quite a third was lost.”
Mee on 2022:
“We had 50mm of rain in June and that helped a lot. Overall, I’m very happy – the heat and the dry meant a lower volume – I was stuck to my weather app – waiting for rain – they kept announcing it but it didn’t arrive. Every year is different! All were bottled at the end of November…”
There will be an extra cuvée Moulin à Vent in 2023 too…
The wines…
A delicious range of wines and the Passerelle is a great one !!
2022 Moulin à Vent Michelons
A high-toned width of aroma – faintly floral. Hmm, this is a wine that melts beautifully over the palate – clean flavoured with a tiny grain of tannin at the base. The finish is a burst of dark—red fruit complexity – that’s delicious.
2022 Morgon Corcelette
A more overt freshness of red fruit. In the mouth too – here is extra freshness and energy, a depth to the finishing fruit flavour too – an airy wine with extra energy and clearly more red fruit focus and precision. It’s very different but also delicious! Yum!
2022 Morgon Grand Cras
More breadth to this nose – red fruit again but here with a small padding. The most fluid, faintly accented by the barrel – and again with a small tannic base but these tannins have no grain. The finishing energy is lovely – but here’s a wine – mainly because of the oak accents – that I’d wait a couple of years before opening…
2022 Morgon Côte du Py
Here’s a small extra perfume of florals over a cushioned red fruit. Large scale, juicy complexity, and broadening over the palate – I love this finishing flavour. You should wait, of course, I would wait until the weekend! That’s a simply excellent 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.
The purest of perfume – airy and gorgeous. Mouth-filling juicy wine – even without the juiciness, there’s fluidity here to balance the wine. Super finishing perfume and a fine intensity – even late in this finish. That’s not a wine of overt power, but it’s still a great, ultra-delicious wine.
Le Blanc:
2022 Beaujolais Blanc
Vines in Belleville. Second vintage for this, vines on an alluvial terroir. All cement for fermentation and elevage
A large-scale nose – quite complex, faintly reductive. Nice texture and width over the palate – slowly starting to show more fruit – and there’s a little generosity to the fruit too. The finish is the most interesting part – wider, complex and tasty. A good wine with a nice little finishing tannin too.