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BEAUJOLAIS NOUVELLES

DE BOISSET
FALL 2021

Morgon Côte du Py

A land of patience!

Mommessin’s Côte du Py cuvée is oxide. To compliment the fruitiness
one of 10 AOCs in the Grandes Mises and vigor of the Gamay grape, the
range. These small limited-edition soil brings minerality and character
cuvées are created using a tailored to the wine. My cultivation, vinification
vinification process, Burgundy-style and ageing methods also bring a
ageing, and controlled yields. In lot to bear!
short, they concentrate the best “At the top of the hill, at the foot of
of Beaujolais as confirmed by the the oak tree or beside the cross of
Best Wine award conferred on our Le Py, you can really feel the soul
Saint-Amour 2018 at last year’s of the place. And the panoramic
International Gamay Competition. view over the Beaujolais region is
Mommessin uses careful plot selection, truly magnificent. This is a unique
blending complementary wines from location in Morgon and is also why
three winemakers into this cuvée. this climat has made such a name
Lydie Nesme, who makes Mommessin for itself. The wines from this terroir
wines with Florent Georger, asked are more expressive and characterful
one of them, Guénaël, to tell us more: while remaining velvety and digestible.
“I could talk about Côte du Py for a They can be vinified to keep over time.
very long time! This terroir, at the “My approach is to bring out the
center of the Beaujolais winegrowing very best of this terroir by using
area, is often cited as a reference. gentle cultivation methods including
Indeed, terroir is a notion that working the soil, lots of manual labor,
encompasses geographical situation, and massal selection. It’s a land of
soil type, location, and the hand of patience and one that is harder to
the winegrower. To my mind, this maintain, requiring more time and
plot on the Côte du Py combines all effort. One has to know how to wait
these parameters in the best way. for the optimal ripeness of the grapes,
“This vineyard sits mid-slope and which can reach great heights, but
faces south-southeast. It has a the balance must be preserved. One
different soil structure than the rest must be patient when it comes to
of the appellation, with blue rock, the vinification and maturing of the
diorite, and schist, with a subsoil of wines. I was born here, so naturally,
decomposing rock containing iron it’s a terroir that is close to my heart!”

« COLLECTION PRIMEURS 2021 »
Miss Mommessin bursts with color

For these first wines of the year, Miss Mommessin is promising
crisp aromas of fresh fruit in this indulgent range of four new
wines for a joyful and colorful fall:
• Pink with the Beaujolais Nouveau Rosé
• White with a new lively and aromatic Mâcon Villages
Chardonnay
• Red with an indulgent and fruity Beaujolais Villages
• And Cuvée Lydie; the ultimate blend of the viniculturist
favorite wines.

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