Fiefs Lagrange

Fiefs LagrangeSome good berry and chocolate character, with just a hint of fresh herbs. Full bodied, with fine tannins and a medium finish. Very good indeed. Best after 2007. 22,330 cases made. JS

as I had an opportunity to spend several hours tasting through all of the wines in barrel with proprietor Roberto Conterno

spicy aftertaste

phenolically mature and driving finish that is quite firm without being aggressive yet impeccably well balanced

" Bibi says

Best from 2014 through 2022

A finely balanced Champagne

the 2020 Old Vine Series Skurfberg offers intoxicating aromas of citrus blossom

it's exquisitely expansive and silky in texture

There is a suave mouth feel to the mineral-inflected and delineated middle weight flavors that exude that lovely sense of underlying tension on the mouth coating and moderately austere finish

but that said

(a large 2 ha monopole of the Domaine with 80% of the vines planted in ’45 and the rest in ’75

pencil lead and oak spices before displaying a balanced structure with firm gripping tannins that will need another year or two in the bottle to settle