Grégoire Hoppenot, Morgon “Corcelette”

When we offered this wine last year, I expected a brisk sellout, and we got one: Grégoire Hoppenot was a well-known talent in wine circles whose “solo project” attracted lots of accolades in the French wine press and trade, prompting a pitched battle among American importers to see who’d get the chance to bring them here.When his pitch-perfect Morgon and Fleurie eventually did make it to the US, we were among the first to get a crack at this 2018 Morgon “Corcelette,” and as it turned out, we didn’t buy enough to satisfy demand. We’ve since managed to land some more, and as the weather starts to warm up and everything is in full bloom, I can’t think of a better time to uncork a bottle of this fresh, fragrant, mineral-rich red. As before, I suggest you grab as much as you can while you can, because this is an all-occasion crowd-pleaser that disappears quickly!Before he returned to his Beaujolais birthplace and set up shop in Fleurie—right across the road from one of my all-time favorites