Winemaker Notes
Blending of these vineyards (slope and gentle-slope) produces a charming wine which is soft in the mouth from its youth. In addition to the beautiful expression of red fruits, there is a good tannin balance, which suggests that these wines will taste.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
This comes from a tiny plot on white soil in Les Clous. Full mid purple with a perfectly balanced concentration of fruit, just on the cusp of red and black. A powerful intensity, a couple of tannins, fine acidity too and a long finish. 13.5% alcohol. Drink from 2027-2033.
Barrel Sample: 89-92 -
Vinous
The 2022 Monthélie Rouge has a lifted, well-defined bouquet with cranberry and wild strawberry, quite ripe and fleshy without being overbearing. Just generous. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannins. It’s extremely elegant with piquant red fruit and a little spice on the finish. What a superb Monthélie from Anne Morey.
Barrel Sample: 90-92
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
