Domaine Lafage in Times Top 100

The results of Jane MacQuitty's Top 100 Summer Wines in The Times are always hotly awaited. In the under £8 category, Domaine Lafage's delicious Cuvee Authentique scored highly.

Jane said

"2005 was a great vintage not just in Bordeaux but elsewhere in France, and this gorgeous Roussillon red is a typical Catalan blend of syrah, grenache and carignan. I was won over by its seductive, spicy, syrah perfume and elegant, dusky, inky palate with lots of peppery fruit to the fore. This is the summer red with which to dine indoors and out."