Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois Les Rontay Morgon 2023 (750ml)

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Producer	Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois
Country	France
Region	Beaujolais
Subregion	Morgon
Varietal	Gamay
Vintage	2023
Sku	47369
Size	750ml

 

It is perhaps a bit reticent at first and somewhat racy initially on the palate but it fleshes out nicely with some aeration and becomes more serious and weighty with about 20 to 30 minutes of breathing.

From a parcel of old vines on the fabled Côte de Puy slope. As is to be expected, the Morgon is more structured than their Fleurie and Chirouble. 

Located in the heart of the Fleurie cru, Domaine de la Chapelle des Bois comprises nine hectares of vines, primarily in Fleurie, but augmented by smaller holdings in Chiroubles and Morgon. We began our work with this charming traditional domaine in the early 2000s with Chantal and Eric Coudert-Appert, the seventh generation to work the land and produce wine here. In the vineyards, Chantal and Eric followed the principles of lutte raisonnée, treating only when absolutely necessary in order to rescue a crop, and their tried-and-true no-fuss cellar methods—spontaneous fermentation, traditional semi-carbonic maceration in cement vats, and aging in large 50-year-old wooden casks—produced Beaujolais of vivid fruit, terrific freshness, and structure enough to develop well in bottle. Chantal and Eric retired after the 2017 vintage, and their successor Frederic Montangeron—a local with years of experience at his own family’s winery—continues in the very same vein as Chantal and Eric, producing honest Beaujolais using skilled farming and a less-is-more approach to vinification and aging.