#marcel lapierre

World Wine Experience 2015: França

A importadora World Wine inicia hoje o World Wine Experience 2015, com vinhos franceses de importação exclusiva. Hoje acontece em São Paulo e dia 16/04 no Rio de Janeiro. Entre para saber mais!

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Niccolò Desenzani @ndesenzani

The last couple of years have been good to Cru Beaujolais. These long misunderstood subregions have recently begun to see some time in the spotlight, in large part due to the freakishly structured and concentrated wines of the 2009 vintage. As a result, prices have begun to creep up, but it's hard to blame the people selling them. For too long, micro-growers of Fleurie, Morgon, and Brouilly struggled to sell their wines, precluded by the blanket reputation of plonk that Georges Dubeuf profitably built for Beaujolais in the latter half of the 20th century. The release, and subsequent critical acclaim, of 2009 wines last year served as the tipping point for a Cru Renaissance here in the United States. 

In America, we like numbers. We buy based on stock IPOs rather than long term projections, promote or demote baseball players on an essential ".300" average, and admission or rejection to our universities is largely dependent on a test score. It's only natural that we select wines based on vintage. 

The 2010 Marcel Lapierre Morgon is hopefully a wine that will make you second guess all of that. This isn't Beaujolais that impresses with sheer concentration, structure, and body like the 2009 incarnation. Instead, it charms and seduces with its "girl next door" character. The bright and fresh crushed berry aromas unfold with oxygen, coupled with floral perfume and earthy elements. The palate is lithe and fresh. Every sip taken makes you yearn for another. Before you know it, the bottle is empty, which should be the real barometer for vintage quality. After all, the ultimate compliment you can pay a wine is the inability to leave a single drop of it. Based on that, this 2010 is hard to beat. 

Without question one of my favourite wines on the planet. Marcel Lapiere was a key figure in the natural wine movement. He farmed without the use of synthetic chemicals and makes no additions in the cellar. Regardless your of your opinionson organic, biodynamic and natural wines, it's hard not to become a believer after trying the wines of Mr. Lapierre.

Floral, fragrant, earthy and incredible balance, complexity and length.