Domaine Jean-Marc Burgaud began in 1989 and has slowly expanded to 19 hectares of vines; 13 hectares in the Beaujolais cru Morgon, 1 hectare of vines planted in the cru Régnié, and 5 hectares in Beaujolais Villages. Of the 13 hectares in Morgon, 8 hectares of vines lie on the hillside of Côte de Py where the youngest vines still average over 50 years in age. Before founding his domaine, Jean-Marc obtained his diploma in oenology and winegrowing, but his teaching began long before that. Born into a family of generations of wine growers, Jean-Marc learned the importance of working the vines by hand and traditional vinification techniques in the cellar by the age of 22.
A wine for laying down par excellence, Morgon Côte du Py owes its typicality to the composition of the soils rich in blue stones from the degradation of schists rich in iron oxide. A powerful wine with noble tannins and aromas of kirsch, produced in the heart of the place called Côte du Py, around the cross dominating the summit.
