Michel Guignier Michel Guignier Morgon Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2024 750ml

At once crisp and very well structured, this bright and concentrated Morgon has enough charm that you can drink it right away. Brimming with sour cherry and violet aromas, but then comes a wave of stony minerality at the long finish, where the fine-grained tannins precisely match it. From vines grown in decomposed granite soil. From 70-year-old vines, the grapes from which underwent a submerged cap fermentation, then the wine was matured in concrete tanks. Drink or hold.

This wine opens with a smile-inducing nose of black plum, rosehip, black tea and forest floor. The earthy palate lassos in concentrated red cherry skin, dried mushroom and hints of sweet baking spice. Supple, well-integrated tannins give poise and impart the faintest, swoon-worthy suggestion of herbs.