Description

After a chance encounter with a professor of viticulture, Noella Morantin was compelled to change her career path due to her new obsession of wine. Starting her own estate in 2008 after Didier Barrouillet of Clos Roche Blanche decided to retire and suggested that she rent parcels of his famed land, Morantin worked with the esteemed parcels before buying 6 hectares of her own. All cultivated organically and vinified without manipulation, this Mon Cher is Morantin’s expression of Loire Gamay. The vines were planted in the 1990s in clay/limestone/flint. Destemmed fruit is fermented and aged in older foudre and fiberglass tanks, typical of her style. This wine is incredibly opaque with ample dark fruit: mulberry, black cherry, frozen blueberries, and herbs. There’s a sculpted mineral profile here with grippy tannins. Delicious!