2022 Marcel Lapierre Morgon

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  4/26/2024 - Maarten1989 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  My first whole bottle of this wine. Started of a little chilled and it was a treat. Almost light purple color with a transparant brim. In the nose loads of red fruit but more matured and supported by some wooden tones.
  
  This is a bottle to enjoy throughout the evening (or day, I won’t judge). The first glass was fruity and delicate, due to the temperature it was showing her young sides. After a few hours the wince becomes more mature with some nice acidity and a reasonable long aftertaste. The complexity will (probably?) develop with a bit more years. For now it is a mind changer for everyone who doesn’t like beaujolais wines.

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  4/26/2024 - shemmy wrote:

  Marcel Lapierre is one of the famed Gang of Four in Beaujolais who’s embrace of the old wine ways: organic viticulture, low SO2 additions, natural yeast vinifications, and no chaptalization would go on to define the natural wine movement as it exists today. Marcel took over his domaine from his father in 1973 fresh out of wine school. He ran the domaine with the in-vogue methods gleaned from industrialization for 8 years. Increasingly over that time, Lapierre realized
  he didn’t like drinking the wine he was producing. He was reaching more and more often for bottles produced during his grandfather’s era. He met Jules
  Chauvet, a winemaker, researcher, chemist, and visionary in 1981. Through conversations with Chauvet and the other local vignerons who would make up the
  gang of four—Guy Breton, Jean-Paul Thévenet, and Jean Foillard—the four decided to return to the practices of their grandfathers and the rest is
  history. These four winemakers have provided a great deal of the momentum that powers the natural wine movement today and the wines from their domaines are still extraordinary.
  
  “Natural wines, they're wines by vignerons who work like their grandparents, not in a manner of the past, but in a manner of understanding and intelligence. Natural wine, it's not a doctrine, it's an ideal: the ideal, it's to vinify without additives, respecting the terroir—the place where the grapes come from—and the vintage.” Marcelle Lapierre
  
  This wine comes from 60-year-old gamay vines on the famed granite soils of Morgon. The wine is picked by hand and ferments semi-carbonically before aging on its lees in old Burgundy barrels. There is no fining or filtering before bottling. Cuvee N sees no SO2 added
  during the winemaking process. Domaine Marcelle Lapierre wines fruit always seems to be stuffed with energy. All raspberries and Rainier cherries, red
  plums and black, and anywhere where the meat of the fruit breaks it bursts with light. There are herbs and spices and savory graniteness to the finish. This wine is remarkable for being both serious and imminently enjoyable at once.
  
  FOOD PAIRING
  fried octopus, cardoons, olive salsa & pimenton aoili
  
  SERVICE NOTES
  Gamay of this quality can be served just as you would a nice pinot; a touch cool to start, and then watch as it disappears.
  
  VARIETY
  gamay

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  2/27/2024 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points

  Quaffable.

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  2/21/2024 - 87tellub Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Been on a Bojo kick recently and really enjoyed this one. So young there is not much complexity right now but what it is is hedonistic and enjoyable. Would love to re-visit in 3-5 years and see what's happening here.
  
  Light to medium ruby red. Lovely perfumed nose that is very floral, very red fruited, very bright. Palate mirrors that, slightly creamy mid-palate and tons of acid structure on the finish. Light bodied and fresh. Quite long legs in the glass, is this 14%? Firm ripe strawberry fruit.

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  12/14/2023 - ethanwade Likes this wine:

  Richly fruited aromas of blackberry, blueberry and violet. A ripe vintage but not as harshly as I expected based on some reviews. Leans a touch jammy on the palate but keeps a nice floral polish to it.

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