Clos Lapeyre Jurancon La Magendia 2021 (375ml) CS20230713 stone fruit complexity

stone fruit complexity

The Nectar d'Or bottling is finished in Sauternes casks

with vines planted on the region's famous deep gravels

which is precisely the appeal

and a touch of black pepper spice

Clos Lapeyre Jurancon La Magendia 2021 (375ml) CS20230713 stone fruit complexityLa Magendia means "the best" in the local Barnais dialect, and the name fits. This is Clos Lapeyre's flagship sweet Juranon, 100% Petit Manseng, made from grapes that hang on the vine into late autumn (sometimes into December) until they shrivel and concentrate naturally on the vine. No noble rot, no chaptalization just sun, time, and patient picking. The Larrieu family ferments and ages in barrel, and the wine that emerges is honeyed and exotic on