Beaujolais
Morgon - 2023 - Mathieu et Camille Lapierre
Domaine Marcel Lapierre
A superb juice and an essential addition to your cellar. With notes of cherry, liquorice and violets. And as always, that huge drinkability that for which Lapierre’s wines are known.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Morgon
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
100% Gamay from old vines averaging 70 years, organically farmed and planted on poor, granitic sand soils, covering a total of 15 hectares. Hand-harvested with sorting, sometimes in two passes to ensure perfect ripeness. Whole cluster vinification, semi-carbonic maceration for 10 to 21 days, then pressed and aged for 9 months in 216-liter barrels, no new oak. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, no added sulfur.
Mathieu Lapierre
Mathieu Lapierre returned to the family estate in 2005. But behind the Domaine Lapierre was first his father Marcel, pope (with J ean Foillard ) of natural wine in Beaujolais. Marcel Lapierre passed away in 2010, leaving behind Morgons which by then had taken on mythic status and, in the footsteps of Jules Chauvet, a philosophy of natural wine which earned him legions of followers. Following...
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