From our importer:

While visiting Beaujolais in 2013, Michele Smith met David Chapel rather serendipitously, when Mathieu Lapierre asked David, who was working at Domaine Lapierre at the time, to lead her tasting. C’était un coup de foudre! Shortly after, David moved to NYC to be closer to Michele, who at the time was wine director at Michelin-starred, Brooklyn Fare. After putting in a few years in NYC, he wooed her back to his beloved granite slopes of Beaujolais to embark on a path to become vignerons together. Vinifying their first vintage at Lapierre in 2016, they soon after found their family home and cellars in the village of Régnié-Durette and got to work. Today, the Chapel’s farm 7.5 hectares of old, gnarly vines on the high slopes of Beaujolais, divided between the crus Chiroubles, Fleurie and their home village of Régnié.

Longtime friends of GCS, we have been honored to represent this estate since day one and love watching the continued evolution of the Chapel's stewardship, which has always been rooted in bringing their parcels to life with respect for their surrounding environments. Michele and David have spent countless hours farming theses heroic sites by hand. Sharing an apéro with their resulting wine, on their picture perfect terrace overlooking the rolling hills of vines is a testament to this painstaking labor of love.

This is organically farmed Aligoté doré from the village of Igé, in the Mâconnais department of Burgundy. The grapes grow on a single-parcel of an east-facing slope with marl and calcaire soil, marking the wine with a saline-citrus note. Michele best describes this as “like drinking salty lemonade with a lick of limestone." Aged in stainless steel for 7 months.

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