Beaujolais
Beaujolais Villages Le Rang du Merle - 2020 - Jean Claude Lapalu
Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu
A rich and concentrated nose... On the palate: intense, fruity and spicy... This wine will replace your black cherry jams and marry brilliantly with your cheeses: Munster, Époisse, etc....
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Beaujolais-Villages
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
A Gamay made from over-matured, raisiny grapes from 90-year-old vines grown organically and planted on granitic soils. Living soils, ploughed and worked by hand without chemistry or weedkillers. Grapes harvested by hand once slightly over-ripe and shrivelled, handled with respect to preserve the indigenous yeasts. Natural vinification, carbonic maceration of whole bunches: 3 weeks depending on the vintage, maturation for 9 months in barrels. No filtration and zero added sulphur at bottling.
Jean-Claude Lapalu
Jean-Claude Lapalu is a vigneron who works in harmony with nature, situated on the slopes of Brouilly since 1996. His 9-hectare estate is certified organic, even if he does not mark this on his labels. He also bottles his wines with next to no sulphur – just 1 g/hl. It would be easy to imagine then that some oenophiles might dismiss him as lazy tree hugger, and yet for some time now...
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