2021 Domaine Sylvain Morey Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Les Charmois

The elegant Les Charmois 1 er Cru Saint-Aubin from Domaine Sylvain Morey shines into the glass with a bright golden yellow color. If you give it some air by swirling it in the wine glass, you will see a perfect balance in this white wine, because it is neither watery, nor syrupy or liqueur-like. Like on the walls of the glass. To the nose, this white wine from Domaine Sylvain Morey reveals all kinds of pink grapefruit, lemon, lime and grapefruit and aromas such as sun-warmed pebble and forest floor. On the palate, this balanced white wine is characterized by an incredibly velvety and light texture. In the finish, this storable white wine from the Burgundy wine-growing region impresses with its beautiful length. Again there are hints of orange and grapefruit.

Sylvain Morey is the descendant of a family whose wine-growing history goes back 400 years, in Chassagne-Montrachet. As the son of Jean-Marc Morey, a respected winemaker from the 1980s to 2014, he is the 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. Shortly afterwards, in 1996, the need to discover more and a meeting with Ludmila took him to the Luberon, a vineyard, shaped like a large oyster shell, 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. Sylvain's plots are spread across the municipalities of Chassagne-Montrachet, Santenay and Saint-Aubin. He also inherited the family home 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 impression in the wine world with his confident winemaking style. His wines, both red and white, show enormous elegance and power, excellent mineral texture, finesse and can be kept for a long time. Sylvain Morey is a name to watch.