182 Morgon AC 2007
Domaine J. Chamonard

Grape:100% Gamay (12.5% alc.)

Jean-Claude Chanudet’s Morgon comes from three hectares of 60 year old vines dispersed across the best slopes of the appellation (all planted on the low yielding Vialla rootstock) on sand, schist and granite soils. The 2007 has succulent, at ease fruit with fine grained tannins and stony minerality which gives the wine a wonderful finish. For drinking now to 2014+.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Jean-Claude Chanudet, ‘le Chat’
Location:	Ville-Morgon. Many different parcels including Chênes, Corcelette, les Martillets
Size of domaine:	3 hectares
Grape:	100% Gamay. Selection massale on Vialla rootstock. 60 yrs old on average. 10,000 vines per hectare in gobelet formation.
Terroir:	Sand, gravel and schist based soils on variety of hillsides, south and south-east facing
Viticulture:	Largely follows organic practice but hates the organic movement (‘the new church’). Neither debudding or vendanges en verts are necessary. The soil is ploughed from spring to summer. Copper, citrothiol and soliplante (all permissible products under organic viticulture) against oidium and mildew. Manual harvest. Table de trie. Yield of 40hh.
Vinification:	Pre-fermentation maceration at 10°C for 20 to 25 days. Cement cuve and foudres for fermentation. Indigenous yeasts. No chaptalisation. Fermented at 19°C for 40 days under maceration carbonique. Uses a wooden vertical press. Racked once. Aged for 8 months to one year. One bottling using their own equipment. No sulphur at reception or during elevage – just at bottling.
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exc vat: £11.92