2024 Domaine Marcel Lapierre Morgon (Non-Sulfur)

The sulphur free version has just been bottled. A little breadstick on the nose but not really volatile. Lively and perfumed. White pepper mixes in with the floral aspect, then some cherry and alpine strawberry, all lingering nicely at the finish. Drink from 2025-2028. Tasted Apr 2025.

Really fantastic nose, little bit of cinnamon hiding in there, but raspberry and then cherry come out towards the end. There's something comforting about the nose that kind of reminds me of a candle I smelled once and really really enjoyed, but I can't really place it beyond that. Either way, this nose pops. There's such a clean purity of the fruit itself. The palate has a juiciness, but also some black tea tannins, definitely more spices mingling with the fruit, there's some clove and mace, I think, working in as well with really crunchy fruit, pie cherries, cranberry skin, pomegranate, and underripe raspberry, with some white flowers in the mix as you crunch that fruit. This is really phenomenal stuff, and one of my top picks from today's tasting.