The Morgon 'Côte du Py' has intense aromas of fresh red cherry and plum fruit. On the palate, the flavours are rich and deeply concentrated, well-balanced with finely-tuned tannins and bright acidity, which lifts the finish.
The Côte du Py is the most famed hill of Morgon. The slope is one of the few outcrops of schist and decomposed blue rock in Beaujolais. It produces wines of intense power and greater structure than most associate with this region. Jean-Marc Burgaud owns seven hectares on the Côte du Py slope which makes his family the largest owner of vines on this famous hill. The vines were planted in 1960 with a massal selection and are gobelet trained and planted at a high density to reduce the Gamay's natural vigour and increase concentration.
