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Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes 2020 (750ml)
Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $15.95
It's full-bodied and creamy in texture, with deliciously supple, soft tannins, which make it...
| Producer | Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Roussillon |
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| Subregion | Côtes du Roussillon |
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| Varietal | 70% Syrah & 30% Grenache |
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| Vintage | 2020 |
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| Sku | 15318 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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“I’m impressed with the Roussillon collection of Jean-Marc Lafage – a huge range, but very well made and well priced.” Andrew Jefford
Rated 90 Points by Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
Tasted twice, two months apart, with consistent notes, the 2020 Côtes du Roussillon Bastide Miraflors is a 70-30 blend of Syrah and Grenache, aged in demi-muids and concrete tanks, respectively. There's a hint of peppermint, but the primary focus here is on the fruit, ranging from blueberries and mulberries into darker notes of plum and dark chocolate. It's full-bodied and creamy in texture, with deliciously supple, soft tannins, which make it exceptionally easy to drink now, but maybe not particularly long-lived.
Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors 2020
A custom cuvée for European Cellars and a joint project between Eric Solomon and Jean-Marc Lafage, Bastide Miraflors is a cuvée created from old vine Grenache (30%) grown on the schist and granite soils of Saint-Paul de Fenouillet, a terroir that always ripens late in the year, and Syrah (70%) from gravelly soils near the Mediterranean. After a long maceration of six weeks, the wine ages for 12 months in roughly 3/4 concrete vats and 1/4 600L French oak demi-muids.
Origin: France
Location: Roussillon, France
Appellation: Côtes du Roussillon
Proprietor: Jean-Marc & Eliane Lafage
Winemaker: Jean-Marc & Eliane Lafage
Portfolio: Eric Solomon Selections
Tasting Notes
A full-bodied, round, opulent red, offering black fruit, roasted herbs, peppered meat, and violet aromas, ripe tannins and a long finish.
Size / Elevation: 160 hectares / 25-400 meters
Variety: Syrah & Grenache, Mourvedre
Age of Vines: 55
Farming: Practicing Organic
Soil: Alluvial Gravel, Schist
Altitude: 35-150 meters
Fermentation: Hand harvested, short pre-fermentation maceration, fermented in tank, 30 day maceration.
Aging: 12 months in concrete tanks (75%) and 600L French oak demi-muids (25%)
Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes Description
Domaine LaFage
For twenty years, we have worked with Jean-Marc Lafage at his estate in the Roussillon and across the border in Spain, where he consults on several projects. As good as his wines were when we first met him, they only get better with each vintage.
While his family has been growing grapes and making wine in the Roussillon since 1791, it was Jean-Marc’s early insight into the potential for the Roussillon to make a wide range of dry wines at very affordable prices that established his “new” estate. While his grandfather and father made wine for the family, Jean-Marc was the first to break away from selling most of his grapes to the local cooperative. Over the generations, his family had amassed scattered vineyards throughout the region, which now totals over 160 hectares of vines, most of them in excess of 50 years in age.
Another factor in Jean-Marc’s success is the diversity of the terroirs in the Roussillon. Squeezed between the far southern edge of the limestone Corbières Massif to the north and the granitic Pyrenees mountains in the south, the Roussillon is an undulating terrain of complex soil types, orientations, and exposures. Three river valleys, the Agly, Têt, and Tech, drain the region generally flowing west to east, where they meet the Mediterranean. Within its borders, Jean-Marc has identified six principal sub-zones in the appellation: the Crest, the Upper Agly Valley, the Uplands of Fenouillet, Les Asprès, the Mediterranean Plain, the Rocky Coast. Each region has its own expression and when you factor in the various varieties Jean-Marc has planted, you can understand why he can make so many riveting wines at such reasonable prices.
