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LAFAGE COTE ESTE WHITE


This is a White wine Item # - 9564
Regular Price (unit): $11.99
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Country: FRANCE
Region: VIN DE PAYS
Sub-Region: CATALAN
Vintage: 2011
Grape: CHARDONNAY
Color: WHITE
Bottle Size: 750ML
Varietal: CHARDONNAY, GRENACHE BLANC, MARSANNE
Number in Case: 12
LAFAGE COTE EST WHITE BLEND

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90
ROBERT PARKER: The Lafage 2010 Cote Est - comprising, as usual, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Chardonnay, and a bit of Marsanne - is delightfully scented with honeysuckle and iris, and its palate combination of juicy lime with the bite of cress, tangerine rind, and persistent inner-mouth florality put me in mind of some top-notch, lighter Gruner Veltliner. In fact, this harbors 13% alcohol yet finishes with a striking sense of levity, not to mention combining subtle but alluring textural enrichment via the lees with refreshing vivacity and intriguing, mouthwatering hints of iodine and salt. Look for it to prove phenomenally versatile over the next 12-18 months. As explained in issue 183, this blend is assembled as juice (not as wine) following a 12-15 day super-cold but gentle settling period for each variety and lot - just one of the many examples of wholly unorthodox Lafage methods resulting in something extraordinary, here above all in terms of uncanny balance as well as improbable price-quality rapport. 

My lengthy recent visit with Jean-Marc and Eliane Salinas- Lafage found them both up to their old, often amazing tricks rendering wines of mind-boggling value, as well as full of promising new ideas and cuvees. (I am not going to underline mentions of value again and again in the notes that follow - this will be obvious if you compare them with the wines' suggested retail prices!) Readers are referred to my issue 183 report for further details on the activities of this talented couple and on the Lafage estate with its vineyards along the coast east of Perpignan; around Maury; and in the southwestern reaches of Les Apres, close to the Spanish border. Lafage considers 2010 "more a year for whites than reds" - while emphasizing just how difficult 2009 was for the former, but I have not tasted his 2009 whites, and he was not ready yet when I visited to allow tasting of any 2010 reds, even those at the low end of his price list. Incidentally, Lafage's already far-reaching but primarily Iberian consulting work now encompasses the Chablisienne cooperative, from which I tasted an impressive, winsomely delicate, ultra-Kimmeridgian 2010 vintage village wine. (I have published elsewhere in this report and that on the Languedoc which accompanies it, notes on Lafage's work at the Chateau Auris in Corbieres and at his own Chateau Saint Roch in Maury.)


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