2012 Lafage Bastide Miraflors
Winestore Price: $12.99 per bottle
Last year the breakout wine of the year may have been the 2011 Lafage Bastide Miraflors (the rose of the same name may have been a close second). You may remember that this was a new project between Charlotte based wine importer Eric Solomon and winemaking wizard Jean Marc Lafage. It was getting some serious hype and then wine critic Robert Parker chimed in the conversation with:
"The fact that wines such as this can be purchased is unbelievable. Largely an artisinal wine, it is brilliantly pure with a stunning nose of spring flowers, blackberries, cassis and earth. It is almost incomprehensible that something of this quality, complexity and richness can be purchased for $15 to $50, much less $10 to $12. The 3,000 cases should be gobbled up as quickly as they hit retailers' shelves. I am honored to share my excitement about this amazing wine with readers."
- Robert Parker
David Schildknecht, also of The Wine Advocate, piled on with:
"The remarkable world Lafage seems to inhabit (or should I say “create”?), where seemingly impossible ends are reconciled and you get to have your cake and eat it too! A crunch of berry seeds invigorates, even as polish and richness caress. And speaking of “amazing,” that is too weak a word for the utterly improbable, almost absurd value offered by this cuvee."
All that was written about the 2011 vintage of this wine. We say this because 2011 was, by all accounts, a not so great vintage in southern France. So here today we offer you the 2012. A blockbuster vintage for sure, and after tasting it we think this wine will once again rock your world for only $12. We are proud to be the first in the US to offer you this beauty, so get while the gettin' is good. Last year this stuff literally flew off the shelves!
Ignore the hype if you want...all we know is we're buying cases for ourselves, and we think you should too!
To order you can:
Order ONLINE by clicking HERE
Call SOUTHPARK @ 704-442-4024
Call BLAKENEY @ 704-443-2944
Call LAKE NORMAN @ 704-892-5662
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