Daniel Bouland Morgon "Bellevue Sable" 2022

The 2022 “Bellevue Sablé” from Mélanie and Daniel Bouland is a brilliant young Morgon. The Bouland family makes this wine from their parcels in the sandier sections of the Bellevue vineyard, which is also their younger vines in Bellevue. The 2022 version is a young wine with a proper underlying Morgon chassis of tannin. The bouquet is deep and sappy, wafting from the glass in a mix of sweet dark berries, black cherries, a nice dollop of fresh herbs, coffee bean, dark soil tones, roasted meats and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and sports outstanding mid-palate depth, with fine soil signature, ripe, buried tannins and excellent length and grip on the complex and impeccably balanced, youthful finish. This is going to be an outstanding and very long-lived example of Morgon. These wines can age. Ten years is not asking too much. But most also drink wonderfully on release -- especially the Chiroubles, Melanie, and Corcelette. They have brains and brawn. And, most importantly, beauty.