Jean-Claude Lapalu – 2022
Tasted with Jean-Claude Lapalu in Saint-Etienne la Varenne, 20 February 2024. Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu Les Quatre Croix, 69460 Saint-Etienne la Varenne Tel: +33 4 74 03 50 57 Domaine Instagram More reports with Jean-Claude Lapalu Jean-Claude on 2023: “23 was fresher and gave wines with less alcohol than 22 –… Read More
Jean-Claude Lapalu – 2022 & 2021
Tasted with Jean-Claude Lapalu in Saint-Etienne la Varenne, 21 February 2023. Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu Les Quatre Croix, 69460 Saint-Etienne la Varenne Tel: +33 4 74 03 50 57 More reports with Jean-Claude Lapalu Jean-Claude on 2022: “22 was relatively easy in the vineyards – not so easy in the cuverie… Read More
Jean-Claude Lapalu – 2020
Tasted with Jean-Claude Lapalu in Saint-Etienne la Varenne, 22 February 2022. Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu Les Quatre Croix, 69460 Saint-Etienne la Varenne Tel: +33 4 74 03 50 57 More reports with Jean-Claude Lapalu Jean-Claude on 2021: “In volume not too bad but I had frost over about 40% the vines… Read More
Jean-Claude Lapalu – 2019
Tasted with Jean-Claude Lapalu in Saint-Etienne la Varenne, 26 February 2021. Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu Les Quatre Croix, 69460 Saint-Etienne la Varenne Tel: +33 4 74 03 50 57 More reports with Jean-Claude Lapalu Jean-Claude on 2019: “Was a very easy year in… Read More
Profile: Jean-Claude Lapalu
Tasted with Jean-Claude Lapalu in Saint-Etienne la Varenne, 20 February 2020. Domaine Jean-Claude Lapalu Les Quatre Croix, 69460 Saint-Etienne la Varenne Tel: +33 4 74 03 50 57 Jean-Claude laughs when I ask him if it’s an old family domaine – “No, it’s creation that began almost… Read More
the weekend wines – week 36 2021
2019 Jean-Claude Lapalu, Beaujolais Villages Le Rang du Merle A Bordeaux bottle! Late-picked grapes, ‘not much extraction’ A nose that takes some coaxing from the glass, but it is cool, complex and inviting. This is concentrated wine –… Read More
two reds…
1992 Vaudoisey-Creusefond, Pommard 1er Les Epenots This cork required some dexterity – one major piece but with multiple fissures and plenty of smaller parts – only one larger one dropped into the wine and it was easy to ‘fish’ out… Medium colour and obviously a wine with some… Read More
2019 Beaujolais: ‘it doesn’t show the sun as much as we were expecting’
2019 Red Burgundy Part 1: Côte de Beaune – November 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 2: Côte de Nuits – December 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 3: (Here) Beaujolais – February 2021 2019 delivered a more classic timing for the… Read More