Domaine Lapierre, Raisins Gaulois, Beaujolais, France, 2024 sparkling How - Organic

How - Organic

Travel over the border from Spain into Portugal and Albarino becomes Alvarinho

This is Gavi

They used to take their grapes to the local cooperative wineries but around ten years ago decided to build their own winery

mostly from a single grape variety (Garnacha) but with a much more developed sense of humour and much less developed sense of their own importance

Domaine Lapierre, Raisins Gaulois, Beaujolais, France, 2024 sparkling How - OrganicThere were a couple of crucibles of the natural wine revolution in France. One was the Loire valley centered on Nicolas Joly. Another was in Beaujolais, where Jules Chauvet, a fourth generation winemaker but also a chemist, took a critical view of what they were being encouraged to do in the vineyard and in the winery and decided that over use of chemicals in both was bad for the environment and bad for the wine. Several other growers in Beaujolais