Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2024

This wine is the first of three cuvées focusing on Corcelette’s sandy and granitic soils. This soil generates wines of great perfume and finer, rounder tannins than you find in Morgon’s 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 Bouland’s wines, this was fermented as whole bunches with indigenous yeasts, with the must foot trodden at the end to prolong the fermentation. A fine start to the trio of 2024 Corcelette-labelled cuvées, this is the prettiest and, in some ways, the most accessible to drink. It’s packed with silky blueberry, red flowers, and sarsaparilla, and has a seamless structure that's already incredibly seductive.