{"id":2374,"date":"2018-02-01T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:46:39","slug":"mo-lafage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2018\/02\/01\/mo-lafage\/","title":{"rendered":"MO’ LAFAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The eye-popping values from Jean-Marc Lafage have been coming at a prolific rate.\u00a0 If we did full emails on the every one of them, which would be easy to do given how good and how well priced they all are, we’d start looking like some sort of Lafage-of-the-Month Club.\u00a0 So every now and again we’ll publish a little something on the ‘down low’, with the caveat that it could <\/em>eventually be its own offer at some point.\u00a0 Don’t confuse this smaller format with a lack of enthusiasm.\u00a0 What Lafage has been doing of late is some sort of unprecedented run of ‘hits’ and this is simply one more.\u00a0 Our task is to keep you informed.<\/p>\n

There are so many different and exciting cuvees, it’s hard to keep them all straight.\u00a0 We counted over 50 different wines reviewed by the Wine Advocate, some only with a single writeup.\u00a0 The\u00a02015 Domaine Lafage Cotes du Roussillon Villages Lieu Dit La Narassa<\/strong><\/a> is only the second in this particular series, an admirable followup to the 93-point 2014 and we think even a little more substantial.\u00a0 Visually it is markedly different than the majority of the bottles in that it comes in a weapon-ready, super-heavy Bordeaux styled bottle with a black label (most others are Burgundy shaped and ‘dressed’ in white).\u00a0 We aren’t sure what the message is, but the wine is definitely an attention-getter in the glass as well.<\/p>\n

Grown in the typical black schist soils of the Roussillon, the 60 to 70-year-old vines of Syrah and Grenache are farmed organically, hand harvested, and brought up in 80% concrete and 20% large neutral barrels.\u00a0 The harvest regimen is a little different for this bottling.\u00a0 It is made in a semi-ripasso <\/em>style\u00a0by harvesting the Grenache in successive passes picking only the\u00a0ripest clusters. Once at the cellars the fruit is destemmed and only the\u00a0best berries are chosen for fermentation after a short pre-fermentation\u00a0maceration.\u00a0 The blend is 80% Grenache and 20% Syrah.<\/p>\n

This one is bold, full, flavored and definitely expressive of this unique terroir near the village of Maury and will stand up to the heartiest of fare.\u00a0 The Wine Advocate’s Jeb Dunnuck<\/strong> was glowing again in his ‘barrel’ review stating, “Notes of cassis, toasted spice, chocolate and licorice all emerge from the 2015 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Lieu Dit La Narassa…This hedonistic, downright sexy, ripe and layered beauty will drink nicely right out of the gate…91-93 Points.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Barrels scores tend to be conservative and, in 2015, almost everything was outstanding so you don’t get as much ‘separation’.\u00a0 So we suspect if it gets a final review, it will finish on the high end.\u00a0 \u00a0We think the 2015 Narassa has even a bit more muscle than the 2014, and definitely a riper profile.\u00a0 Once again the magic is that this is an expansive, engaging wine that only costs $15 a bottle.\u00a0 How does<\/em> he keep doing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The eye-popping values from Jean-Marc Lafage have been coming at a prolific rate.\u00a0 If we did full emails on the every one of them, which would be easy to do given how good and how well priced they all are, we’d start looking like some sort of Lafage-of-the-Month Club.\u00a0 So every now and again we’ll … Continue reading “MO’ LAFAGE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[161,202,203,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}