Louis Claude Desvignes - Morgon - Chateau Gaillard 2021
Domaine Louis-Claude Desvignes is located in Villié-Morgon , in the Morgon appellation in Beaujolais . It has been a family estate for eight generations, now managed by Claude-Emmanuelle and Louis-Benoît Desvignes . For several years, they have been working their soils in the most natural way possible, without synthetic products and very few interventions are carried out in the cellar. They develop structured Morgons, without aging in wood with long parcel aging in concrete vats. Part of the vineyard has been certified organic since 2018.
Château Gaillard is produced from Gamay , the age of the vine of which is 80 years, and cultivated on 1.03 hectares in the Douby climat composed of sand and granite, at a place called Château Gaillard. After the manual harvest, the vinification is traditional with 10% of the harvest destemmed. Fermentation lasts 10 days, then the wine is aged in cement vats for 7 months . This cuvée has been in the process of organic certification since 2020.
Grape variety: 100% Gamay