A dark green glass wine bottle with a white label reading 'CAMPSOU BENVÈRLS' and a small green foil seal at the neck, photographed against a light gray background.

Domaine Lajibe Campsou Benguères 2023

£84.00

Domaine Lajibe’s flagship dry Jurançon: concentrated Petit and Gros Manseng from a steep hillside, with preserved lemon, fennel and a long saline finish.

Preserved lemon
Fennel
Sea spray
Chalky finish

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What does it taste like?

Preserved lemon, white flowers and wild fennel lead into sea-spray salinity and a cool, chalky finish. The palate is concentrated and textural, but the piercing acidity gives it remarkable energy, precision and length. It is already compelling and built to develop for many years.

At a glance

Producer: Domaine Lajibe
Region: South West France
Appellation: Jurançon Sec AOC
Grape: Petit Manseng Gros Manseng
Vintage: 2023
Country: France
Wine type: White
Alcohol: 13.0%
Size: 75.0cl
Farming: Organic — practising

Taste profile

Body: Full
Acidity: High
Tannin: Low
Sweetness: Dry

What to eat with it

Gravlax with herbs
Grilled prawns
Roast turbot
Aged Comté

How to serve it

Serve: Cool (10–12°C)
Decanting: Optional
Drinking window: 2026–2040

Why Cave selected it

Lajibe’s rare flagship cuvée and one of the most exciting dry whites in Jurançon: intensely concentrated, but defined by preserved-citrus freshness, saline precision and genuine long-term ageing potential.

About the wine

Tasting Notes

Producer

Domaine Lajibe is the Jurançon project of Jean-Baptiste Semmartin in Lucq-de-Béarn. After experience in Burgundy, he began making wine here in 2015, focusing on organically farmed local varieties and precise, low-intervention dry whites with remarkable tension.

How it is made

The blend is 70% Petit Manseng and 30% Gros Manseng. The fruit is gently pressed, fermented with native yeasts and matured in a combination of demi-muids and stainless steel, with minimal sulphur and no fining or filtration.

Vineyard & terroir

Campsou Benguères is a dramatic, steep, organically farmed hillside overlooking the Pyrenees, regarded by local growers as one of Jurançon’s finest sites. The demanding slope produces small quantities of concentrated, mineral fruit.

About Domaine Lajibe

Jean-Baptiste Semmartin (Domaine Lajibe) left a career as an athlete to make wine and after experience in Bordeaux, Collioure and Burgundy (working with biodynamic practitioners) he established Domaine Lajibe on the Serres-Seques terroir. The estate is small (several hectares) and has been managed organically and more recently certified biodynamic (Demeter); Semmartin focuses on native varieties of the region (Petit & Gros Manseng, Petit Courbu) and crafts both bone-dry and late-harvest Jurançon cuvées that are praised for their precision, energy and terroir expression.

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