2023 Jean Foillard Morgon Corcelette

Natural wine master Jean Foillard's wines are always the very definition of elegance. This bottling is from a parcel of vines on sandstone, so it's a bit different than many other Morgons you might be familiar with, showing softer structure and an emphasis on floral flavors, accented by deep, earthy mushroom notes.

Jean and Agnès Foillard took over his father's domaine in 1980, and soon thereafter began to make Kermit Lynch customers very happy. Most of their vineyards are planted on the Côte du Py, the famed slope outside the town of Villié-Morgon and the pride of Morgon. These granite and schist soils sit on an alluvial fan at the highest point above the town and impart great complexity. However, great real estate is not the only key to Foillard's success. Early on, Jean began to follow the teachings of Jules Chauvet, a traditionalist who defied everything that the more commercial brands were touting in the region. Jean and three other local vignerons, Marcel Lapierre, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Guy Breton, so