Morgon

Referring to the village of Villié-Morgon that lies at the heart of the fine wine areas in Beaujolais, Morgon is produced by 250 wine-growers. It has a deep garnet colour and gives off aromas of ripe stone fruits like cherries, peaches, apricots, and plums. This wine is the most extensive after Brouilly. Rich, powerful, and full-bodied, with a solid structure, it expresses all the characteristics of its terroir. Overlooked by the Mont du Py, the plots of “rotten rock” formed from schists and very old igneous rocks are divided into six quite distinct ‘climates’, the most famous of which is the Côte du Py. Suitable for laying down (5–10 years), Morgon is perhaps the wine that best expresses its terroir, to the point that the growers of this wine have invented a word to describe it, when it is at its peak: they say that the Morgon “morgonnes”, and many wine experts have taken up the term.