2009 Marcel Lapierre Morgon Cuvée Marcel Lapierre

BY JOSH RAYNOLDS | JANUARY 03, 2021

Marcel Lapierre was a living legend in Beaujolais when he passed away at the age of sixty, in October 2010, just after harvest. Such was his renown that his obituary was published in the New York Times as well as in major newspapers across the globe. Lapierre will always be known for being the leader of a loose-knit group of Beaujolais producers who, in the early 1980s, bucked the industrial, hyper-commercial mentality that had settled in the region. Following the lead of négociant, wine scientist and writer Jules Chauvet, Lapierre began making his wines from organically farmed vineyards, with minimal intervention in the cellar, meaning no added chemicals and little to no sulfur, and then bottling without filtration. While this is common around the world now, such practices were nothing short of revolutionary at the time.