2022 Domaine Sylvain Morey Chassagne-Montrachet Blanc

Sylvain owns two village vineyard plots in Chassagne Montrachet just below the village (Meix Goudard and Les Pierres) and with a total surface area of just 0.21 hectares, which yield just over 100 cases of wine per year. Matured in barriques of which approximately 25% is new, which gives a nice structure and extra backbone to the wine.

Sylvain Morey comes from a family with a wine-growing history dating back 400 years, in Chassagne-Montrachet. 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. As you might expect, Sylvain Morey also studied oenology in Beaune and Dijon. After working in France and California, Sylvain returned to Burgundy. Shortly afterwards, in 1996, the need to discover more and a meeting with Ludmila brought 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. Sylvain's plots are spread across the communes 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. With his deep Burgundian roots and his strong self-assurance from his two decades of winemaking in the Luberon, Sylvain has already made an impression in the wine world with his self-assured winemaking style. His wines, both red and white, show enormous elegance and power, excellent mineral texture, finesse and they are worthy of age. Sylvain Morey is a name to watch.