Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2023 great-western Californian Cabernet

Californian Cabernet

and vibrant gooseberry range

Each vine naturally yields only 2-4 bunches —about half to a third of what you would expect of a well-managed Grand Cru site in the Côte d’Or

then pre- and post-destemming) and the wine is naturally fermented in concrete before spending 10 months in large

but still deliciously full-bodied and very fragrant

Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2023 great-western Californian CabernetThis wine is the first of three cuves focusing on Corcelettes sandy and granitic soils. This soil generates wines of great perfume and finer, rounder tannins than you find in Morgons more schist influenced terroirs. Bouland separates his so called younger vines in this area (60 years on average, so hardly young!) from his oldest bush vines, which are bottled under the Vieilles Vignes label. Like all Boulands wines, this fermented as whole bunches with