Collection: Morey-Saint-Denis

Morey-Saint-Denis is an independent, legally protected village appellation in Bourgogne in northern France. It lies in the northern part of the Côte d'Or, more precisely in the strip of famous red-wine villages that make up the Côte de Nuits. Here Pinot Noir is the leading grape, and it is this style that has made the area known among wine lovers.

Bourgogne is a region where soil and location mean everything, and Morey-Saint-Denis is well placed between two of the most familiar neighbouring villages, Gevrey-Chambertin to the north and Chambolle-Musigny to the south. Together with appellations such as Vosne-Romanée and Nuits-Saint-Georges, Morey-Saint-Denis belongs to the classic Burgundian family along the Côte de Nuits, where terroir and craftsmanship carry great weight.

In this corner of Bourgogne the wine made is overwhelmingly red (around 95%), while a smaller share of white wine from Chardonnay (about 5%) rounds out the picture. A particular hallmark of the area is its share of grand cru sites, and the Côte de Nuits as a whole accounts for a significant part of Bourgogne's total grand cru area. Morey-Saint-Denis itself is just one of the prestigious neighbouring villages along the same strip, but the appellation holds several of these distinguished sites.

In this northern part of the Côte d'Or, Pinot Noir often produces red wines with fine structure and an aromatic depth that many associate with precisely this row of villages. At Copenhagen Wine we carry wines from Morey-Saint-Denis, and it is a good entry point if you would like to explore Pinot Noir from the Côte d'Or and understand what makes the northern Burgundian villages special. If you want to dig deeper, you can delve into our entire selection from Bourgogne and from France in general, where you will find more expressions of the same grape and neighbouring appellations to compare with.