Château de Grand-Pré Morgon 2019 - Romain Zordan

Description

Château de Grand-Pré Morgon is a Cru Beaujolais wine (the crus are the best Beaujolais wines) from the Morgon Cru and is produced from the Gamay grape. The Chateau has been in the same family for over 50 years and the vineyard and winery are now run by the third generation of the family, Romain Zordan.

Romain’s ethos is minimal intervention and so he farms organically with certification since 2012. Nor does he add sulphites to his wines. Grapes are therefore kept in a cooling unit to keep them fresh and undergo a long cool carbonic maceration to ensure that juicy fruit flavours dominate in the wine. As a result, Château de Grand-Pré Morgon tastes very pure and clean, full of ripe cherry and raspberry flavours and it is developing spicy and smoky notes on the nose and palate.

Some Beaujolais red wines seem a thin and pale but this comes from old vines and does see a little ageing in oak barrels. As a result this wine is dark and very rounded wine in the mouth. It has great acidity balancing all those lovely fruit flavours and so it leaves you wanting more. It is drinking beautifully at the moment! Though sometimes confusingly named Domaine de Château de Grand Pré (with or without Zordan in the title), there is no denying that this is an amazing organic Morgan. For another great Beaujolais Cru, try Juliénas.