On my trip to Burgundy in May I had the pleasure of revisiting Domaine Moron-Garcia in Nuits-Saint-Georges to taste the 2018s wines from cask.
Wine and people
Domaine Moron-Garcia is managed by Matthieu Moron and Pierre-Oliver Garcia, who are making some fabulous wines in a modest-sized cellar in Nuits-Saint-Georges. The first vintage for the estate was 2016.
This is not your everyday operation, as some of the wines are made in a time-consuming but also highly quality-oriented way that can best be described as borderline crazy or, more generously, an extreme focus on quality and detail.
Flavour of the year
Winehog – I – named Domaine Moron-Garcia Flavour of the Year 2018 for the delightful wines from the 2017 vintage.
The motivation is and was that Moron-Garcia produces vivid, energetic wines with character and substance. The wines have lovely complexity and a style unique to the estate, and they are made with refinement and a lovely expression of terroir. The wines have quite some substance, and more weight and depth than many current Burgundy wines.
More info on Moron-Garcia can be found here
A bit about baie-par-baie
Matthieu Moron and Pierre-Oliver Garcia employ a special technique whereby some of the berries in the top-end wines are “hand-destemmed,” grape-by-grape, to ensure whole berries for the vinification. This is extremely time consuming. They must have a lot of good friends, not to mention special dedication.
The “baie-par-baie” grapes are mixed with whole-cluster bunches, and in some cases more machine-destemmed berries.
Photo Domaine Moron-Garcia – baie-par-baie
The baie-par-baie method is unusual and very time consuming. However, the wines served here are of both high and exciting quality.
The 2018 wines from Moron-Garcia
The 2018s here are slightly more generous than the delightfully balanced 2017s – and as with other producers, they contain intense and relatively dark fruit. Here, the 2018s are all about freshness and balancing acidity/ph.
Moron-Garcia has nailed most of the cuvées, with only one perhaps tipping over onto the rich, velvet, dense and ripe side.
This is how it is, and the Moron-Garcia guys do not beat around the bush: They are very honest about the difficulties they had with the wine in question. But to be honest, I have tasted many worse wines from 2018…
Now to the tasting notes…
Starting out with the Domaine Moron-Garcia Aligoté 2018 as usual. This is a vivid and aromatic Aligoté from ancient (80- to 100-year-old) vines. It’s somewhat more generous in this vintage, but the influence of the lees has a fine balancing effect, hence avoiding the more sweet tendencies one could have feared from a rich vintage like this. A lovely glass – vivid and with a nice citrus freshness.
(Drink from 2019) – Good (86 – 87p) – Tasted 24/05/2019
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The Domaine Moron-Garcia Brouilly La Folie 2018 is from down south in Beaujolais, thus Gamay, and 10% whole cluster as far as I recall. Fine, vivid balance and a lovely freshness. The palate offers delightful fruit, with a spicy impression from the lees (light caramel and fennel) supported by lovely acidity. This is delicious.
(Drink from 2019) – Good (86 – 87p) – Tasted 24/05/2019
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The Domaine Moron-Garcia, Bourgogne La Maladieres 2018 is representing the relatively rich and generous side of the 2018s, with nice iron minerality lurking in the background. Lovely fruit with variations of cherry, and the 20% whole-cluster in this cuvée gives an expressive, somewhat floral bouquet. A quite delightful wine in 2018.
(Drink from 2023) – Good (85 – 87p) – Tasted 24/05/2019
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The Domaine Moron-Garcia, Marsannay Clos du Roy 2018 is an intense and powerful wine for this level. Its fruity and deep character show fine mineral expression. One-quarter whole-cluster in this cuvée gives a fine expressive bouquet and a fresh floral character in this rather saturated vintage. Better than the 2017? Perhaps…
(Drink from 2023) – Good (86 – 87p) – Tasted 24/05/2019
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Tasting Notes for this producer
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2022s February 16, 2024
- Domaine Nathalie & Gilles Fevre Chablis 2022 July 6, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2019 July 4, 2023
- Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée Saint-Vivant 2008 June 3, 2023
- Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Montrachet 2007 June 3, 2023
- Domaine de Montille Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Saint-Juliens 2019 May 16, 2023
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2022s from Cask May 4, 2023
- Domaine Jean Fournier Marsannay Les Longeroies 2015 Version Originale April 25, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée 2014 April 15, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Cras 2014 April 15, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2014 April 14, 2023
- Domaine Michel Voarick Corton-Charlemagne 2008 April 14, 2023
- Domaine Prieure-Roch Vosne-Romanee Hautes-Maizières 2012 April 13, 2023
- Domaine Prieure-Roch Clos de Vougeot 2009 April 13, 2023
- Marthe Henry Boillot Aligote 2019 March 26, 2023
- Domaine Antoine Lienhardt Côte de Nuits villages Les Plantes Aux Bois 2021 March 25, 2023
- Case Basse Soldera Toscana IGT 2018 March 23, 2023
- Domaine Camp-Atthalin Savigny-les-Beaune Les Prévaux 2019 March 23, 2023
- Domaine Antoine Lienhardt Emphase 2021 March 21, 2023
- Domaine J.-F. Mugnier, Nuits-Saint-Georges Clos de la Marechale 2019 March 21, 2023
- Theo Dancer Bourgogne Blanc 2020 March 21, 2023
- M & C Lapierre Beaujolais 2021 March 20, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée Clos du Château 2014 October 25, 2022
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2021s October 24, 2022
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée La Colombière 2009 October 21, 2022
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2021s from Cask July 12, 2022
- Exploring the Domaine Tawse Musigny June 14, 2022
- On the Table, In the Glass #36: Un Vrai Vin de Soif June 6, 2022
- Domaine Charles Lachaux Côte de Nuits Villages Aux Montagnes 2019 April 3, 2022
- Domaine Bizot Vosne-Romanée Les Jachées 2006 March 25, 2022
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