Collection: Jean-Claude LAPALU Cellar

Jean-Claude Lapalu is part of the new-wave of natural winemakers in Beaujolais and his wines are some of the finest in the region. 
He grew up in a vine-growing family, but unlike his father who sold all his grapes to a co-operative, Jean-Claude quickly realised he needed to oversee the whole process. Today he owns around 12 hectares of organically farmed, old-vines, which average 60-80 years old, grown on the fine, granite soils of Beaujolais.
Not afraid to bend, or even break, the rules, he practices minimal-intervention wine-making and the result is high quality, nuanced red wines which are bursting with structure and concentration.