2024 Morgon Cuvée Marcel Lapierre

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Beaujolais

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Gamay

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Drinking Window

2026 - 2032

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There are behind-the-scenes changes at Marcel Lapierre. Co-Proprietor Mathieu Lapierre now divides his time between Beaujolais and Montreal, where his wife lives. Lapierre intends to be present in the Beaujolais for crucial moments of the growing season, and in any case, his sister, Camille, has been co-managing the domaine for a number of years. Unfortunately, she was ill on the day of my visit, so it was her husband, Italian-born Giorgio Demichelis, who guided me through the wines.

“Two thousand twenty-four was quite complicated,” Demichelis tells me as we taste outside in their courtyard opposite the winery. “The weather was unstable, with a lot of rain throughout the season, only stopping for short periods. Since we are 100% organic, it was difficult to treat the vines because the rain could wash away the treatments. There was a constant danger that you could lose your harvest, but we had a lot of solidarity within the team to get us through the tough moments. In some plots, we lost 80% of the harvest due to mildew and black rot, plus a bit of oïdium. We did a three-to-four-week carbonic maceration on all cuvées, whereas in 2023, we conducted a slightly shorter carbonic maceration to avoid extracting bitterness. This was not a concern in 2024 because we had high malic acid, which slowed down the lactic bacteria and allowed us to extend the maceration. We only add sulfur at bottling. Around 60% of our yield is bottled with SO2 and 40% without.”