Marcel Lapierre, Julienas, 2016 SO061124_Vetter2021 creating a complex multi-age blend

creating a complex multi-age blend

The tannins are fine but firm

élevage split across amphora

The 2023 is fresh for Malbec — less extracted than a typical Mendoza bottling

Marcel Lapierre, Julienas, 2016 SO061124_Vetter2021 creating a complex multi-age blendThe Lapierres bottled a Julinas for only three vintages 2016 through 2018 and this is the first of them, now a decade in bottle and drinking beautifully. Marcel Lapierre and his gang didn't just invent what we now call natural wine; they resurrected a region that had become known for nothing but cheap industrial bottlings, and since his death in 2010 Mathieu and Camille have kept every part of it going. The Julinas fruit came from five hectares of 60