Marcel Lapierre - Beaujolais Rouge 2021
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.
Grape variety: 100% Gamay