"Eau Forte", Lapalu - 2021

Name: "Eau Forte", Lapalu
Brand: Lapalu
SKU: 42498
Price: 39.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 42498 750mL

Jean-Claude Lapalu's Eau Forte cuvée is a carbonic blend of Beaujolais Villages and Brouiily and is the ultimate expression of Gamay from separate parcels. It is lithe with impressive persistence and length. This is a wine you should drink standing up.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2021

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Beaujolais

Producer

Lapalu

Grape Variety

Gamay

Production Methods

Organic

Certified Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard. Certified in the country of origin.

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Staff Pick Notes

Jean Claude Lapalu is neither one of the old guards of natural wine (Foillard, Dutraive, Lapierre) nor one of the younger natty producers but rather sits in the midst of the two generations. With vines going from Mont Brouilly to his home village of Saint-Étienne-la-Varenne ("gateway to the Crus"), Lapalu has been highly touted throughout all of Beaujolais and for good reason. The Eau Forte is a carbonic blend of younger Beaujolais-Villages and Brouilly made typically in cooler vintages to allow better expression of the terroir. Notes of dragonberries, rhubarb, black cherries, smoky incense are supported with bright acid and a spicy, pungent mineral backbone. I drank this standing up as Lapalu would recommend, but I'm completely floored!

- JOS

Glossary

Burgundy

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Beaujolais

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