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The second wine of Château Lagrange, Les Fiefs benefits from the same care as its senior wine, but can be enjoyed when younger. After a nose of very ripe black fruits, liquorice and menthol, an excellent balance between the roundness of the tannins and a persistently long finish is evident on the palate. One of the finest second wines with remarkable consistency.
Wine characteristics
- Vintage : Les Fiefs de Lagrange
- Year : 2012
- Appellation : Saint-Julien
- Colour : Red
- Grape types : 57 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 35 % Merlot, 8 % Petit Verdot
- Soil : gravelly outcrops
- Harvest : manual
- Type of viticulture : sustainable
- Alcohol content : 13,00%
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : dark ruby
- Nose : black fruits, menthol, liquorice
- Mouth : round with plump tannins
- Serving temperature : 16-18 °C
- Cellaring : 5 to 7 years
- Drink from : 2015
- Winemaking process : 2 to 3 weeks in stainless steel vats
- Maturation : in barrels including 20% new barrels
Food-matching
- Food-matching : steak with Bordelaise sauce, sautéed veal with chanterelle mushrooms
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Wines from Bordeaux are the quintessential image of French wine around the world. The region has 117,500 hectares of vineyards and produce 5,700,000 hl of wine in an average year.
The vineyards are wrapped around the Garonne, Dordogne and their shared estuary, the Gironde.
The climate in Bordeaux is temperate, with the vineyards themselves protected from the ocean by the département of Landes. Frosts are infrequent and while the spring and summer are sometimes fairly wet, a fine autumn is often the determining factor for the quality of the vintage.
The Bordeaux subsoil tends to be rather diverse. As a result, major vintages are often grown on gravelly hilltops, while the surroundings are made up of limestone or clay sediments les. Part of the complexity of Bordeaux stems from the way the grape type and subsoil combine to work their magic.
Grape types – red: merlot (60%), cabernet sauvignon (25%), cabernet franc (11%), as well as petit verdot and malbec.
Grape types – white: semillon (53%), sauvignon (35%), muscadelle (6%), as well as colombard and ugni blanc.
Recent vintages
- 2010: rich, powerful reds with imposing tannins. Great cellaring potential. Fresh, elegant dry whites. Fine sweet wines, fruity with fine acidity
- 2011: contrasting red with imposing tannins and immediate acidity.. Good dry whites that are easy to drink and refreshing. Rich, concentrated sweet wines.
- 2012: reds better on the right bank with its dominant Merlot grape. Drink fairly young while awaiting previous vintages to mature. Fragrant, well-balanced dry whites.
- 2013: a different, varied red vintage, but fine wines to be drunk young. Very fine and aromatic dry whites. Liquorous, ideal for racking with a magnificent balance.