Bouland’s Bellevue soils are split into two cuvées—one for the sand (Sable) and one for the stones (Cailloux). These two parcels are only separated by a small track, yet, as Bouland points out, the soil is completely different. Tasted side-by-side, the Sable cuvée is the more yielding of the two wines, with a greater width and juicier tannins than the Cailloux bottling. The Bellevue “Sablé” from Mélanie and Daniel Bouland is an excellent young Morgon. The wine comes in at fourteen percent octane in this vintage and delivers a deep and complex constellation of red and black cherries, sweet cranberries, gamebird, woodsmoke, sweet stem tones, a fine base of soil, peonies and a nice touch of gentle spice tones in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, deep, ripe and full-bodied, with a superb core of fruit, fine soil signature and grip, moderate, buried tannins and excellent focus and balance on the long, youthfully complex finish.