Domaine Pierre Morey Pommard 1er Cru Grands Epenots 2022 Bouteille (75cl)
The 2022 Domaine Pierre Morey Pommard 1er Cru Grands Epenots is a red Burgundy wine from the Pommard appellation and classified as 1er Cru. Crafted from 100% Pinot Noir, it comes from the Les Épenots parcel. The Wine Advocate awards it 91-93/100, describing a profile with notes of cherry, dark berries, plum, and petals, supported by a fleshy, smooth, and enveloping palate.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Pommard
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Pierre Morey
- Parcelle / Cru
- Épenots
- Millésime
- 2022
Domaine Pierre Morey
Domaine Pierre Morey is a family-run estate based in Meursault, in the Côte de Beaune. Its vineyard, covering approximately 10 hectares, is mainly located in Meursault, with plots in Monthélie, Pommard and Puligny-Montrachet. The vines have been cultivated using biodynamic methods since late 1997; Anne Morey now manages the estate.
- Owner
- SCEA Domaine Pierre Morey (famille Morey ; gérante : Anne Morey)
- Surface (ha)
- 10.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 47 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The Morey family’s origins in Burgundy date back to the 16th century, and their presence in Meursault has been documented since 1793. In 1935, Auguste Morey, father of Pierre Morey, became a sharecropper on the Comtes Lafon estate in Meursault. When he took over at the end of 1971, Pierre Morey gradually assumed his father’s leasehold rights and in turn became a sharecropper for the Lafon, Poirier and Morey families. In 1984, the Lafon family decided to take back their plots for direct cultivation; the gradual withdrawal from these vineyards was completed in 1991. At the same time, Pierre Morey served as estate manager at Domaine Leflaive in Puligny-Montrachet from 1988 to July 2008, where he oversaw the technical aspects of the vineyards and cellars. He began cultivating his own vineyards according to the principles of organic farming in 1991, before the estate was fully converted to biodynamic farming at the end of 1997. His daughter Anne then joined the business and became co-manager. The Morey-Blanc wine-trading and ageing company was established in 1992 to complement the estate’s range following the loss of certain sharecropping contracts; it vinifies and ages purchased grapes or musts. Jean-Victor Morey joined the estate full-time during the 2020 harvest. Since 31 December 2025, Anne Morey has been the sole manager of SCEA Domaine Pierre Morey.
Épenots
Épenots designates a winegrowing sector in the northeast of Pommard, towards the border with Beaune, rather than a single official climat. The specifications distinguish within this sector the Premier Cru climats Les Grands Epenots, Les Petits Epenots and Clos des Epeneaux, the latter covering parts of neighboring cadastral lieux-dits. The soils present a mosaic of Jurassic limestones and, in part of Les Petits Epenots, alluvial cone deposits, making it impossible to assign them a perfectly uniform pedological profile.
- Vineyard commune
- Pommard
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name Épenots is thought to be derived from the thorny bushes that once covered this sector of the Pommard hillside.
- Subsoil and geology
- Mosaic of Middle Jurassic limestones: Ladoix limestones in the upper parts of both Epenots, Chassagne limestones notably towards Les Petits Epenots; nearly half of Les Petits Epenots is covered by the Quaternary alluvial fan of the Combe Lulunne.
Histoire de la parcelle
A producer source reports that in 1620 Guillaume d'Argilly acquired and cleared land in Les Épenots before giving it to the Cistercian monks of Cîteaux, likely linked to the Domaine de Maizières, without certain identification of the plot concerned. On a modern regulatory level, the INAO separately recognizes Les Grands Epenots, Clos des Epeneaux and Les Petits Epenots among the Pommard climats classified as Premier Cru.
