2023 Caroline Morey, La Comme, Santenay Premier Cru Rouge

About this wine

The 2023 Caroline Morey Santenay Premier Cru La Comme comes from the vineyard at the northern edge of Santenay that runs into Chassagne-Montrachet, where Caroline Morey's parcel of Pinot Noir borders the premier cru Les Embazées. Caroline is the daughter of Jean-Marc Morey of Chassagne and the wife of Pierre-Yves Colin; she started her own domaine in 2014 with her share of the family vines and now farms seven hectares, sustainably and by hand, from the cellar the couple built in Chassagne-Montrachet. For La Comme she keeps around a third of the grapes as whole bunches, lets the fermentation start on native yeasts and raises the wine for up to fourteen months in 350-litre barrels of which no more than a third are new, then bottles without lees stirring, under a long untreated cork sealed with wax. The domaine's reds are built on freshness and fine tannin rather than extraction, and La Comme is the deepest of its Santenay wines.

Expect strawberry and red cherry, a floral, lightly peppery nose, a silky mid-palate with fine tannins and a fresh, mineral finish of real length. Serve at 16 degrees with roast guinea fowl, a beef daube, grilled lamb or a mature Cîteaux. Drink from 2027 to 2036.

About Caroline Morey

Caroline Morey is the daughter of Jean-Marc Morey of Chassagne-Montrachet and the wife of Pierre-Yves Colin, and in 2014 she took her share of the family vines, 2.4 hectares, to start a domaine of her own in the new cellar the couple built in Chassagne. The estate has grown to seven hectares, two thirds Chardonnay and a third Pinot Noir, farmed sustainably and picked by hand. The whites ferment as whole bunches on native yeasts and are raised without lees stirring; the reds keep a quarter to forty percent of whole clusters, depending on site and year. Élevage is mostly in 350-litre barrels, never more than thirty percent new, up to fourteen months for the reds, and the bottles are sealed with wax over long untreated corks.