Marcel Lapierre continues to cast a long shadow in the world of natural wine, this is flagship wine is a standard bearer for Morgon and natural vinification and continues to offer sublime value and enjoyment to all palates as it`s not not on the fringes but the very mainstream of complex, stable, juicy Gamay - On 2023: The nose reveals dark berry fruit

Including old Trollat Vines

There is a steady depth of black berries on the nose, some southern tones, beyond them notes of mineral. The palate comes with tight clench content, good furnishing, with reach and live tannins that add energy and will slot in. It runs with purpose, and sustains the fruit into its rocky, local close, is highly STGT, granite-influenced, offers violet on the aftertaste, way to go touches du coin. This is bingo St Jo of eternal days, a wine of character and truth that take it up to ****(*). 5,200 b. From spring 2026. 2038-40 Feb 2024 ****(*) John Licingstone-Learmonth

The ‘Confidential Wine Culture’ of St-Joseph has long clutched Domaine de Gouye tight to its chest, as it did his neighbour and long-time friend Raymond Trollat. The Gouye family have most of their vines in the lieux-dit of Gouye, high up on the hills over St-Jean de Muzols. Separated by a ravine from Aubert and Pichonnier, Trollat’s old plots. Philippe has 3 hectares here mostly planted between 1955 and 1975. Due to its high altitude, the wines manage to retain freshness even in warm years. It is a phenomenal terroir, worked with absolute conviction in the old methods by Philippe Desbos. As well as Trollat, he had much in common with Elizabeth Fogier, a female vigneron of St-Jean de Muzols who defended the old style in the 1980s and 1990s, living an unpretentious and steady farmers existence like Philippe and his family do now. Hens cluck at your feet, a horse to plough. Not much changes here.

80 - 160 cases produced a year, so a small run. even within the confines of the small Gouye holdings. 100% Marsanne with a wonderful blend of fatness and freshness.