Established: 2005
Appellations:
AOC Bourgogne + Hautes Cotes de Beaune
AOC Saint Aubin
AOC Chassagne Montrachet
AOC Puligny Montrachet
AOC Meursalt
AOC Corton Charlemagne
Proprietor & Winemaker: Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey
Wine Making Overview: whites are whole bunch pressed and fermented with native yeast. Ageing up to 16 months for Bourgognes, St Aubins and more than 18 months for top white wines with no lees stirring in a very cool cellar. Red wine get partial whole-bunch ferments (about 30%) with very gentle pumping over and gentle vinification designed to maximise freshness and finesse. Long untreated corks for most wines and bottles sealed with wax
“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.”
Pierre-Yves Colin left the family domaine in 2005 (Domaine Marc Colin in Saint-Aubin) to branch out on his own, and today, together with his wife Caroline Morey, has established Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey as one of Burgundy’s most exciting and sought-after producers. Based in Chassagne-Montrachet they craft mineral-driven Chardonnays and refined Pinot Noirs from some of the finest terroirs in the Côte d’Or.
The white wines are whole bunch pressed, fermented with native yeasts and aged on lees for up to 18 months in mostly larger 350 litre barrels without any lees stirring.
The Village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru wines are bottled with extra long and extra wide (55 x 25 mm) untreated corks and the bottles are then sealed with soft wax as a further protection against premature oxidation. The resulting wines offer incredible purity, precision, and a true sense of place and are built to age for a good decade or more.
2023 Vintage
“First, one of the great positives of the 2023 vintage is that, despite the blazing hot harvest conditions, the average wine is fresh and bright with fine terroir transparency. The vivacity is aided considerably by the fact that alcohols are, mostly anyway, very reasonable with adequate, though by no means high, acidities. In short, the wines are, for lack of a better term, just fun to drink.” Burghound.com, June 2025
