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181 Morgon AC 2010
Marcel Lapierre (see NEWS)Grape:100% Gamay (13% alc.)
This is the first vintage made by Mathieu following the death of his father last year. He is a very talented winemaker, and is aiming at a little more finesse in his wines. For drinking now to 2016.
Technical Information Winemaker: Mathieu Lapierre Location: Villié-Morgon Size of
domaine:11 hectares (+ 3 hectares of bought in grapes) Grape: Gamay planted at 10,000 vines per hectare. 40 year old vines on average (20-70 yr old) Terroir: Below Villié-Morgon although has 1 hectare on Côte du Puy. Mix of clay, schist and granite. Viticulture: 10/11 of the vines have been cultivated by agro-bio since 1981, 1/11 of vineyard under bio-dynamic viticulture since 2002. No chemical fertilisers or weedkillers used. Ploughed the soils for 25 years. Prunes old branches off vines as late as March (6 months after harvest). 100% manual harvest – very rigorously sorted. Vinification: The entire grape bunches, are vinified in 50hl wooden cuves. Indigenous yeasts only are used and no chaptalisation or S02. The grapes are cooled to between 10°C-15°C. The fermentations starts of its own accord in the juice at the bottom of the cuve. There is no remontage or pigeage, and during the alocoholic fermentation the temperature picks up to max of 28°C. It is a true maceration carbonique with a cuvaison of between 10-20 days. The press wine is assembled. The end of the fermentation is usually carried out in 2-13 yr-old 225ltr barrels (from Priévré-Roch in Burgundy) to which the wine is transferred (and the malos are always completed in oak). On average the wine spends 9 months in oak (with no S02). We buy a cuve that is bottled without fining or filtration, but has a low dose of S02 added. Press: