Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Delys Vignes de 1926 2024

This wine used to come to us simply as Morgon Vieilles Vignes without the name of the vineyard or lieu-dit (it is now labelled Morgon Les Délys Vignes plantées en 1926). It comes from a single hectare of 100-year-old vines located on the Morgon-Chiroubles border at the end of the Corcelette valley—a terroir historically known as Délys. The old, gnarled vines sit on a southeast-facing slope, planted at 10,000 vines per hectare. As always, this is likely to be Bouland’s most age-worthy wine and it is something special in 2024. It’s a superb Délys, dense and silken, underpinned by graphite-like minerality and magic length. Already a wonderful drink but, as always, the tannins are the most tightly wound, the steeliest, reminding us that this is a wine that will have no problem living and developing for decades.