October’s wine is the 2015 Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors (€8.90 from www.weinpalais.de).
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate says:
“This wine is almost too good to be true. 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 raspberries. Deep, unctuous, open knit and layered, it continues to change in the glass, has a seamless and silky profile, and not a hard edge to be found. It’s a sensational value that needs to be tasted to be believed. Drink it anytime over the coming 2-4 years.” 94/100
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