Morgan Winery

Morgan Winery is one of Monterey County's most historically cool-climate-founding and personally family-warmly conducted luxury Pinot Noir and Chardonnay programs. Dan and Donna Lee — who established Morgan in 1982 with a specific conviction that Monterey County's Santa Lucia Highlands and Arroyo Seco growing corridors produced Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of individually distinctive cool-maritime and diurnal-temperature-swing character that deserved more serious luxury wine attention than the California wine establishment was giving them — built one of the county's most personally family-identity-connected and historically cool-climate-founding luxury Monterey County Pinot Noir and Chardonnay programs.

The Double L Vineyard — a personal estate ranch on the Santa Lucia Highlands ridge that Dan Lee named for himself and his wife Donna — provides the geological and climatic foundation for Morgan's most prestige single-vineyard Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and Chardonnay expressions. The Double L designation declares the most personally family-love-named and highest-elevation-Santa-Lucia-Highlands-specifically-individual estate terroir source in Morgan's most ambitious luxury tier.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored Morgan's Double L Vineyard Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and Chardonnay at 92–95 points, while the Carmel Crossroads Boulevard tasting room provides the most conveniently coastal-village-adjacent and personally family-warmly conducted daily walk-in Monterey County Pinot Noir and Chardonnay encounter available steps from the Pacific Grove and Carmel coastal corridor.