2017 Domaine Marcel Lapierre 'Cousins' Julienas, Beaujolais, France   

This brand-new cuvée is the result of a collaboration between the Lapierres and their cousin Christophe Pacalet. Each vinifies their own cuvée of Juliénas and after malolactic fermentation they blend equal parts of each of their cuvées. The 2017 has the family’s textbook silk and hedonism, but this bottling is slightly darker and richer than their 2017 Morgon. —Tom Wolf