Lafage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes - 2015 (750ml) Size:750ml The bouquet demonstrates more fruit

The bouquet demonstrates more fruit concentration and clarity than the 2009

2% alcohol but also very good energy in the mouth

has a refreshing acid line to add lift and medium to firm levels of rounded tannins

Impressive is the superb non-vintage Manzanilla Papirusa

the 2010 continues to build all the way through to a deeply resonant

Lafage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes - 2015 (750ml) Size:750ml The bouquet demonstrates more fruitThis wine is almost too good to be true. A blend of 70% Syrah and 30% Grenache that was brought up in concrete tanks (Grenache) and demi muids (Syrah), the 2015 Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes reminded me of a mini Syrah from California's Manfred Krankl (yes I just compared a $14 Syrah to Sine Qua Non). It's a ripe, sexy, heady beauty that exhibits a deep, purple color as well as killer notes of smoked meats, chocolate, blackberry and black