2021 Domaine Sylvain Morey Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Champs-Gains Blanc

Sylvain owns 0.39 hectares of the premier cru Champs Gains. The vines are quite old, about 60 years old, generating a wine that is quite full-bodied with a solid mineral structure. It is one of the most beautiful Chassagnes of Morey. In the scent, the wine has rosemary, resin and some citrus fruit. The taste is remarkably fresh, creamy, beautifully complex and has a convincing long finish

Sylvain Morey is the descendant of a family whose wine-growing history goes back 400 years, in Chassagne-Montrachet. Son of Jean-Marc Morey, a respected winemaker from the 1980s to 2014, and brother of winemaker Caroline Morey who is the wife of Pierre Yves Colin . Unsurprisingly, Sylvain Morey also studied oenology in Beaune and Dijon. After work experience in France and California, Sylvain returned to Burgundy. Soon after, in 1996, the need to discover more and a meeting with Ludmila led him to the Luberon, a large oyster-shell-shaped vineyard in the heart of Provence, north of Aix.

In 2014, Sylvain's father, Jean-Marc Morey, decided to split his eight-hectare estate. Sylvain and his sister Caroline (wife of Pierre-Yves Colin ) each received four hectares. The Sylvain plots are spread over the communes of Chassagne-Montrachet, Santenay and Saint-Aubin. He also inherited the family house at the bottom of the village. That same year he produced his first Burgundy wines under the Domaine Sylvain Morey label. However, with his deep Burgundian roots and strong self-assurance from his two decades of winemaking in the Luberon, Sylvain has already made an impact in the wine world with his confident viticultural style. His wines, both red and white, show enormous elegance and power, excellent mineral texture, finesse and they are age-worthy. Sylvain Morey is a name to watch.