Pierre-Marie Clape, longtime steward of Domaine Clape in Cornas, passed away on June 28, 2025, after a brief and sudden battle with cancer. His loss marks the passing of a man who carried forward one of the Rhône’s great winemaking traditions with humility, conviction, and grace. He was 74. The Clape name is synonymous with Cornas. The domaine was founded by Pierre-Marie’s father, Auguste Clape, who settled in Cornas in the late 1940s and became one of the first to bottle wine under his ...
