Depardon Domaine de la Bêche Morgon VV 2024 (750ml) St.-Joseph

Depardon Domaine de la Bêche Morgon VV 2024 (750ml) St.-JosephVery old vines (70 to 100 years old!) of Gamay Noir growing on a terroir of blue schist and rotten rocks. A nose of black cherry and fresh raspberry with spicy notes. On the palate a beautiful aromatic complexity, power, fatness and substance are there. Surprisingly balanced and greedy, mineral and without heaviness with well integrated tannins.

fresh acids

grapefruit and lemon

the palate is focused

It is in the spirit of Zio Baffa (that somewhat off-beat fun-loving Uncle we all may have)

The wine is crisp and fresh with an almost weightless mouthfeel

Jacques de Ségur was credited with the planting of the Lafite vineyard in the 1670s and in the early 1680s

showing rich strawberries

doesn't add sulfur until right before bottling

No malolactic fermentation

Still full of young energy

This fruit driven rosé has an explosion of berries

the wine is transferred into French and Slavonian oak for ageing