Beaujolais
Morgon - 2023 - Mathieu et Camille Lapierre - Magnum
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
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- 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, just a micro dose of sulphur for the magnums.
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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