Marcel Lapierre - Cuvée Camille 2023
Domaine Lapierre is located in Villié-Morgon , in Beaujolais . Family business for three generations, grandfather Michel Lapierre came to settle in Villié-Morgon at the beginning of the century as cellar master at “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 operation by buying a few plots.
In 1973, with a clientele built up by his father, Marcel Lapierre took over the operation which then covered 7 hectares. It was from 1981, under the leadership of Jules Chauvet, a well-known and recognized researcher at the Universities of California, that Marcel Lapierre decided to make wine without sulfur or yeast and to cultivate his vines biodynamically : without chemical fertilizers or weedkillers. . Today, despite its disappearance, the energy of the estate remains intact. The wine estate, planted entirely with the Gamay grape variety (the average age of which is 70 years), now extends over 16.5 hectares.
Cuvée Camille has been produced by Camille Lapierre since 2014, from an old plot of 1.05 hectares on the Côte du Py. Gamay undergoes a traditional Beaujolais semi-carbonic maceration in truncated conical wooden vats. The wine is aged for 9 months in old 216 liter barrels .
Grape variety: 100% Gamay
