Louis Claude Desvignes 'Corcelette' Morgon, 2022

100% Gamay. This bottling from the celebrated climat of Corcelette is the first Desvignes wine from sourced fruit. They harvest the fruit by hand from a 0.8-hectare plot of 50-year-old vines on sandy pink granite soils on a south-facing slope (see the dark swatch on the gorgeous label) in the western part of Corcelette near the border of the climat of St. Joseph.

Vinification is consistent across all Desvignes wines. The hand-harvested clusters go through a semi-carbonic maceration in open-top concrete vats, with a submerged-cap maceration of about two weeks. A very small amount of sulfur (1-2 grams/hectoliter) is added after malo and sometimes at bottling. The wine is aged in concrete tanks for about 9 months and bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration.