Quaffable! A Superb Beaujolais-Villages. Medium-light bodied, filling every nook of the palate with juicy cherry, blackberry and bitter cherry flavors! Along with Foillard and a very select few one of our favorite Beaujolais producers.
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Jean-Claude Lapalu Beaujolais-Villages is elegant, bright, pure with gorgeous, generous cherry fruit, bright flavours. Made from old vine Gamay that are densely planted on an early-ripening site of sandy, granitic soil.
Jean-Claude Lapalu is of a generation that sits between Beaujolais natural wine pioneers Foillard, Chamonard, Lapierre, Thevenet .. and the latest generation of young guns – Remi Dufaitre, Alex Foillard, Julien Metras..
He began his domaine in 1996, previously, his family had been grape growers selling to the cooperative. He made his first commercial wines in 2000. He owns 9 hectares of vines in Brouilly, most of which are old (60–80 years, some are much older), and which are farmed biodynamically, Jean-Claude spends most of his effort in the vineyards, which he knows inside out, and adapt vinification to each site. Jean-Claude only uses indigenous yeasts and doesn’t use any sulphur during vinification, there is only some added at the bottling and then only in very small quantities.
A top-tier old vine Beaujolais-Villages from a densely planted, early ripening sector. This super value is supple, succulent and very pretty.
James Suckling 92 points This has aromas of raspberries, wet clay, red plums and rosemary stems. Lovely clarity of fruit with a creamy texture and silky yet sturdy tannin frame. Serious Beaujolais Villages. Drink now.
SKU: 210000037081
