2022 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Bourgogne Blanc, Burgundy

From vines located in Meursault (40%), Puligny (15%), Chassagne (15%) and also Saint Aubin (30%). Made exactly like all the other wines, just a shorter elevage. Not yet labelled Côte d’Or ‘It can be but the clients have never asked for it. Below Chassagne and below Puligny. Fresh clear colour, not reductive but nor is there much nose showing either. Lean and racy, grapefruit and fresh lemon at the finish, quite persistent, and now a little of the reductive aromatics can be seen. Pure and persistent. Drink from 2025-2027.

87-88 points  Jasper Morris MW Inside Burgundy October 2023

I found it very interesting to taste with Mathis, elder son of Pierre-Yves Colin and Caroline Morey, as it gave me a new perspective on the Colin-Morey wines. No startling insights perhaps, but just a slightly different way at looking at the wines, and more information on the vineyard side of things. We also tasted both Pierre-Yves and Caroline’s wines together, in the order suggested by geography. However, I have presented the two labels separately. The wines nowadays are a little less reductive than in the past.

Picking started on 21st August, whites, then reds, then the Hautes Côtes de Beaune plot in early September. Full yields, degrees at picking from 12.4 to 13%, brought up by light chaptalisation to 13.2 to 13.5%. All the wines are made in 350 litre barrels, with crushed and cooled grapes, no settling of the solids after pressing, no lees stirring either, an early and rapid fermentation, then malolactics followed, finished by Christmas. The crushing and long pressing give a more concentrated dry extract. They were worried at the harvest by the relatively high pH levels, but the certainly don’t taste that way. The first two whites and the reds were racked before the harvest, the rest still in barrel. Some will be bottled in February-March, the grander wines June-July. Note that in 2022 almost all the wines are from their own domaine, excepting Corton Charlemagne, Chassagne-Montrachet Baudines and part of the Meursault blend.

Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy, December 2023 on PYCM 2022

2022 Vintage
‘The 2022 white burgundy vintage can be summed up concisely and thusly: 2022 is the best white Burgundy vintage since 2017 and rivals, if not surpasses, 2014 in quality. Genuinely great wines were made up and down the classification hierarchy and in every commune. Moreover, unlike 2021, quantities are good though not actually generous so there is a reasonable chance that you will be able to find them, a big plus because you will want to find them.’

Burghound.

One of the rising stars of Burgundy. Pierre-Yves has built a strong reputation for crafting exquisite Burgundy 

“This is not just one of the top domaines in the Cote de Beaune in Burgundy, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey is now well recognised as one of the greatest winemakers and domaines in the world. Consistently producing benchmark wines in each vintage.”

Established as one of the young rising stars of Burgundy, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey in 2005 left his family Domaine, Marc Colin, where he gained a solid reputation for his outstanding white wines. Pierre-Yves took control of a share of the family vineyards (Domaine Marc Colin) from 2006 vintage.

The white wines are whole bunch pressed, fermented with natural yeasts, aged on lees for up to 18 months in mostly in 350 litre barrels with no lees stirring and no filtration. The corks used come from one tiny supplier and are extra long and extra wide (55mm x 25mm) for the village, 1er cru and Grand cru wines and are untreated with no paraffin and the bottles are then sealed with soft wax to ensure no problems with premox. The resulting wines are built to age classically up to 10 years or more.