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Domaine Daniel Bouland

Benchmark Old-School Morgon from a Grower’s Grower

One of Beaujolais’ more reclusive growers, Daniel Bouland makes some of the most old-school and expressive wines in the whole of the region. Hand harvested from old Gamay vines in the Morgon lieux-dits of Corcelette, Bellevue and Pré Jourdan, Bouland’s wines are defiantly deep, dark, country-style reds with plenty of grip and overflowing with personality.

These are wines that are built for the long haul, unlike so many of the wines produced in this region. Daniel himself recommends five years in bottle for the terroir to show the wine’s true sense of clarity and mineral nuance. From the best vintages, 15 years will not weary the Morgon cuvées. This is not to say they are not approachable as youngsters.

Bouland’s wines are some of Beaujolais’ most authentic and deep offerings from a true vigneron; a vigneron whose wines have justifiably acquired a cult following over the past decade.

Bouland portrays the ‘artisanal Beaujolais vigneron’ in perhaps its purest form. He works alone in his vineyards where most of the material is gnarled, old goblet vines. His young parcels have been planted with selections massale from his older vineyards. Nothing is sweetened and nothing is taken away from the raw, visceral goodness of the juice. All of Bouland’s wines undergo natural, 100% whole-bunch fermentation, in the classic, Beaujolais, semi-carbonic style, before aging mostly in large, neutral oak. All the wines are bottled without fining and with only a light filtration. The result of this simplicity is country wines of great character, quality and deliciousness. They offer remarkable value in the context of great Burgundy.

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Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Sable 2023

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Sable 2023

Bouland’s Bellevue soils are split into two cuvées—one for the sand (Sable) and one for the stones (Cailloux). These two parcels are only separated by a small track, yet, as Bouland points out, the soil is completely different. Terroir! Not only does the weathered sandy granite differ from the Cailloux parcel, but the slope is steeper, and the 40- to 50-year-old vines are on a specific low-yielding rootstock called Vialla—a stock well adapted to sandy, granitic or deep argilo-siliceous soils. Tasted side-by-side, the Sable cuvée is the more yielding of the two wines, with a greater width and juicier tannins than the Cailloux bottling. Regardless, the wine retains superb, juicy drive and finishes with superb, pour-me-another-glass intensity.

“Really large scaled aromas with a little pyrazine – to start – but then it’s lost in a large melange of dark fruit aromas and faintly flowers too. Wide over the palate – super texture with a fluidity and modest sweetness – but here is longer than the CdBrouilly – what a gorgeously delicious wine!”
Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report
"The 2023 Morgon Bellevue Sable displays aromas of baked black cherry pie, violet and a touch of coffee spice, reflecting its southeast-facing, low-yielding vineyard. On the palate, the tight-knit, sandy tannins offer a sturdy structuring, while the fruit and spice tones ascend into an airy upper register. This contrast between the grounded texture and the expansive aromatics underscores the wine'ssophistication."
91 points, Kenna Wells, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Sable 2023
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Délys Vignes de 1926 2024

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Délys 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. Bouland admits that if he could find the grafting materials he needs, he would start to replant this ancient parcel—it yields too little juice for his liking. Just as well he can’t: this is a reference Morgon and one of the greatest single-vineyard wines in all of Beaujolais.

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Délys Vignes de 1926 2024
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2024

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2024

This wine is the first of three cuvées focusing on Corcelette’s sandy and granitic soils. This soil generates wines of great perfume and finer, rounder tannins than you find in Morgon’s more schist-influenced terroirs. Bouland separates his so-called ‘younger’ vines in this area (60 years on average, so hardly young!) from his oldest bush vines, which are bottled under the Vieilles Vignes label. Like all Bouland’s wines, this was fermented as whole bunches with indigenous yeasts, with the must foot trodden at the end to prolong the fermentation. A fine start to the trio of 2024 Corcelette-labelled cuvées, this is the prettiest and, in some ways, the most accessible to drink. It’s packed with silky blueberry, red flowers, and sarsaparilla, and has a seamless structure that's already incredibly seductive. 

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette 2024
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Sable 2023 (1500ml)

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Sable 2023 (1500ml)

One of three site-specific wines from Corcelette, this cuvée is drawn from old vines on granitic sand soils (sable means sand). The vines were planted in 1926, so it’s truly a Vieilles Vignes cuvée. It is the sister wine, if you like, to the Cailloux (stony) cuvée. Unsurprisingly, Bouland’s gnarled old trunks have over-delivered again. Raised in an old foudre, it’s a layered, inky, mouthcoating Morgon oozing blood plum and blackcurrant fruit framed by melting tannins, juicy acids and a long, perfumed finish. If it were from the Côte d'Or, you would be well into three figures.

“Lots of colour with this wine. Ooh, now that’s deep and with a superb clarity too. Faintly, these aromas are padded with a small perfume. Ooh – ultra direct, cool, mineral and fluid – what a wine. Ultimate balance for such concentration. Grand vin! So large yet still ersistent in this finish – if you have enough you can try it straight away – but that will be great for 30 years!”
Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Sable 2023 (1500ml)
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Pré Jourdan 2023

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Pré Jourdan 2023

This is our second allocation from Bouland’s recently acquired parcel in the lieu-dit Pré Jourdan, which sits on the Morgon-Fleurie border in the northeast corner of Morgon. Sitting on the south side of a small valley, its exposition looks northeast, facing the vineyard of Douby. Bouland farms a tiny parcel of 70-year-old vines, just enough to fill a single large cask (a youngish Rousseau foudre in this case). The soils here are predominantly granitic sand—although they run deeper than in Bellevue and Corcelette—providing Bouland with a fleshier and highly aromatic Morgon to add to the range. In Beaujolais terms, it is profoundly deep, rolling out in palate-staining layers of spice-infused blueberry and blackberry fruit suffused with more smoked meat and dark, slaty mineral notes. Yet, for all its power and mouthfilling texture, it has real nuance, mineral lift and verve. 

“A calmer nose – less focused but still with a fine dark-fruited invitation. Panoramic flavours, a faint creamy note underpinning the fruit – flavours that take off in the middle in terms of incisiveness and intensity ending with a beautifully clean last impression.”
Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report
"Bright and expressive, the 2023 Morgon Pré Jourdan offers layered notes of powdery flowers, cherries, blueberries and vanilla spice,though with a touch of volatile acidity that disperses within a few minutes in the glass. Full-bodied, the wine is broad on the attack,though gently tapers from the influence of its latticed tannins. With bright acidity balancing the weight of the fruit, the wine offersgreater approachability compared to others in the lineup."
90 points, Kenna Wells, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Pré Jourdan 2023
Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Cailloux 2024

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Cailloux 2024

This is our second allocation of Bouland’s Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Cailloux, which is drawn from the domaine’s Corcelette vines rooted in this lieu-dit’s rockier soils. The vines here are only a little younger than the centurion beasts that go in the Sable version of this wine. It’s a terroir that gives a slightly more structured Morgon than the Sable cuvée. To be honest, we have never really had a preference between the two since they were differentiated on the labels starting with the 2019 vintage: both wines are stunning examples of Corcelette. As usual, it is fascinating to compare directly with the Sable (sand) cuvée. Here, there’s more orange and spice shading to the palate, and also a smoky, hot-rocks kind of mineral profile. Long and strong, this is going to age beautifully. By the way, this is Bouland’s favourite wine in 2024: “It’s like a master blend of all the wines in the cellar.”

Domaine Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vieilles Vignes Cailloux 2024
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AT-A-GLANCE

• Daniel Bouland is a fourth-generation vigneron based in the heart of the Corcelette hamlet in Morgon, Beaujolais.

• The estate spans approximately eight hectares of vines, mainly in Morgon, with small holdings in Brouilly and Chiroubles.

• Bouland alone does most of the vineyard and cellar work, now assisted by his daughter Mélanie.

• The bush vines across the plots have significant age, with 40 years considered young and the Vieilles Vignes material approaching 100 years old.

• Vinification is semi-carbonic, and the wines mature in large, neutral barrels.

• The range includes a collection of Cru wines from Morgon, several of which are bottled according to soil type—Sable (sand) and Cailloux (stone)—and many of which are Vieilles Vignes.

• There are also Cru wines from Chiroubles and Brouilly, and most of the wines are available in large formats.



IN THE PRESS

“This estate is one of my personal reference points for the Beaujolais. Concentrated and succulent, Bouland's wines are beautifully differentiated by site and age gracefully…” William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

“This tiny wine grower of the hamlet of Corcelette… has seduced us for a few years now with his concentrated and textured Morgons. The fruit weight in no way masks the almost wild minerality of the soil. These wines have an intensity that can only come from old vines that are impeccably cultivated… We do not hesitate to say that you will find here the best value for money in red wine [in this guide].” La Revue du Vins de France

“The wines are made traditionally, with whole bunch-fermentations, native yeasts and aging in neutral oak casks before bottling without filtration. Bouland has a rabid following in France and overseas so his wines are never easy to track down.” Josh Reynolds, Vinous

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