Morillon is an old north eastern French name for pinot noir and is still a common name for the powerfully aromatic chardonnay of styria in southern Austria. It was a widely used Burgundian vine variety name in the Middle Ages and was, for example, an old name for Chardonnay in Chablis country.
ยฉ Jancis Robinson and Oxford University Press 1994, 1999, 2006, 2015