Marcel Lapierre - Vintage Marcel Lapierre 2022
Domaine Lapierre is located in Villié-Morgon , in Beaujolais . A family business for three generations, grandfather Michel Lapierre came to settle in Villié-Morgon at the beginning of the century as cellar master at the “Domaine des Chênes”. After the Second World War, his son succeeded him. He then sought to develop sales in barrels to bistros in Lyon and Mâcon. At the end of the 1950s, he began to sell his production in bottles and expanded the estate by buying a few plots.
In 1973, with a clientele forged by his father, Marcel Lapierre took over the farm, which then had 7 hectares. It was from 1981, under the impetus of Jules Chauvet, a well-known and recognized researcher in the Universities of California, that Marcel Lapierre decided to vinify without sulfur or yeast and to cultivate his vines biodynamically : without chemical fertilizers or weed killers. . Today, despite its disappearance, the energy of the domain remains intact. The vineyard, planted entirely with Gamay grapes (whose average age is 70 years), now extends over 16.5 hectares.
The Marcel Lapierre cuvée is the Domaine's great cuvée , produced in small volumes and only in the best vintages. The wine is made from Gamay vines with an average age of 100 years. The Gamay undergoes a traditional Beaujolais semi-carbonic maceration in tapered wooden vats. The wine is aged for 9 months in 228 liter barrels .
Grape variety: 100% Gamay