2023 Dujac Morey Saint-Denis 1er Cru

91-93 Wine Advocate. Review Date: 01/2025. The 2023 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru unwinds in the glass with aromas of plums, smoked duck, spices and orange zest. Medium to full-bodied, with good depth at the core, lively acids and gently stringy tannins, it will reward a bit of bottle age. Domaine Dujac's 2023 harvest began with Les Folatières on September 1, followed by a five-day pause before resuming on September 6. As elsewhere, yields were generous, and alcohol levels range between 13.3% and 14%. The domaine's more spacious and better temperature-controlled new winery was surely an asset, and the 2023s are shaping up nicely, offering up expressive fruit as well as plenty of underlying structure. Readers, of course, will be familiar with the outlines of the Dujac approach to producing red Burgundy: organic farming, fermentation with a predominance of whole clusters (with some 20% to 30% destemmed this year) and élevage in barrels largely sourced from Tonnellerie Rémond.(WK)

90-93 Burghound. Review Date: 01/2025. Note: the blend is <70% Ruchots with the balance in Clos Sorbé, Millandes and Charrières, all of which totals .79 ha. There is enough wood in evidence to mention surrounding the earthy and spicy aromas of poached plum and violet. I very much like the texture and energy of the acceptably dense medium-bodied flavors that terminate in a dusty, powerful and more refined finale that displays excellent length. Lovely and understated.*Burghound Outstanding!*

92 John Gilman. Review Date: 01/2025. After a fairly surprising number of quite red fruity 2023s chez Dujac, the Morey St. Denis “Premier Cru” moved on over to the black fruity side of the vintage ledger. It offers up a refined bouquet of plums, black cherries, venison, dark soil tones, chocolate, woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, tangy and complex, with excellent focus and balance, a lovely core of fruit, fine soil signature and a long, suave and ripely tannic finish. Good juice that will take plenty of cellaring to start to blossom properly. (Drink between 2037-2085)

90-92 Vinous. Review Date: 01/2025. The 2023 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru has a little more delineation, intensity and darker fruit on the nose compared to the Village. The palate is medium-bodied, demonstrating a touch more weight than the Village, with hints of red cherry, strawberry and bergamot toward the finish. It's nicely structured and doubtlessly much earlier drinking than the 2022.(NM)

Domaine Dujac is a respected family-run wine estate based in Morey-Saint-Denis in Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, founded in 1968 when Jacques Seysses bought and renamed a small property previously called Domaine Graillet. Seysses, who trained with established Burgundians, built the domaine’s reputation by marrying Burgundian tradition with thoughtful innovation and by expanding holdings into highly regarded vineyards across both the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune. Today his children Jeremy Seysses, his wife Diana, and his son Alec lead operations, continuing quality improvements and a move to organic viticulture completed in the late 2000s. Dujac’s still-relatively limited production focuses on Pinot Noir and some Chardonnay from village, Premier Cru, and Grand Cru sites; winemaking has evolved from Jacques’s earlier heavy reliance on whole-cluster fermentation and all-new oak to more flexible use of stems and oak by vintage and terroir, with an emphasis on expressing site and fruit purity. The estate is widely regarded for elegant, complex Burgundies prized by collectors and sommeliers. (dujac.com)