Marcel Lapierre, Le Beaujolais, 2025 SO061725 Arretxea part 2 fruit-forward expression

fruit-forward expression

age-worthy Cabernet Franc

Bruno Nada left a career teaching hotel management to start the estate in 1982

A serious Provence white with a stunning history behind it

bottled 30/07/2015

Marcel Lapierre, Le Beaujolais, 2025 SO061725 Arretxea part 2 fruit-forward expressionOld vines that just missed the cru line: this comes from 2. 5 hectares of 50 to 80 year old Gamay planted immediately outside the Morgon boundary, so you get Lapierre fruit from serious vines under a humble Beaujolais label. Marcel Lapierre and his "gang" more or less invented the natural wine movement by combining fastidious organic farming with a cellar that does as little as possible, and Mathieu and Camille have carried it forward without dropping