Product Description
Marcel Lapierre assumed control of his family’s small domain in Morgon in 1973. Eight years later, Lapierre, along with rest of what would come to be known as the Gang of Four [ Guy Breton, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Jean Folliard ] fell under the spell of the outspoken winemaker, researcher and chemist Jules Chauvet one of the first to espouse natural, non-interventionist wine growing practices in the Beaujolais. At Domaine Marcel Lapierre, this commitment to unadulterated wines begins in the vineyard where biodynamic and organic practices are used, and care is taken to preserve the yeasts living on the bunches From its eleven granitic hectares of vines (average age: 45 years), Lapierre makes deeply concentrated and unusually powerful Morgon that is considered by some to be the best in the village that boasts the greatest number of serious producers in Beaujolais. Since Marcel’s death at the end of the harvest in 2010, his son Mathieu has assumed full responsibility for the domain, keeping Lapierre’s legacy alive and well. Domaine Lapierre follows natural principles in the vineyard, bottling part of his output without the addition of any sulphur. Ordinary common or garden Beaujolais, this isn’t!
Scents of ripe red berries mingle flatteringly with perfume of peony and buddleia as well as a smoky aura of black tea. A polished style, offering well-knit tannins and layered flavors of black cherry coulis, licorice snap, macerated plum, fragrant leather and ground star anise. Very refined, this is juicy and focused through to the finish, which shows accents of smoky mineral and garrigue.