Domaine Lajibe Les Poudingues 2022/23/24

£49.20

A rare 2022/23/24 multi-vintage Jurançon Sec blending Petit and Gros Manseng for ripe fruit, herbal complexity and a saline, high-acid finish.

Ripe pear
Citrus peel
Wild herbs
Saline finish

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What does it taste like?

Ripe pear and quince are sharpened by citrus peel, wild herbs and a warm-stone salinity. The palate is full and richly textured, yet the naturally high acidity of the Manseng grapes keeps it energetic, dry and long rather than heavy.

At a glance

Producer: Domaine Lajibe
Region: South West France
Appellation: Jurançon Sec AOC
Grape: Petit Manseng Gros Manseng
Vintage: Multi-vintage
Country: France
Wine type: White
Alcohol: 13.5%
Size: 75.0cl
Farming: Organic — practising

Taste profile

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

What to eat with it

Grilled monkfish
Roast pork
Aged Comté
Squash with harissa

How to serve it

Serve: Cool (10–12°C)
Decanting: Optional
Drinking window: Now–2030

Why Cave selected it

An unusually ambitious multi-vintage dry Jurançon that combines the depth of several harvests with brilliant acidity and saline drive. It is distinctive, gastronomic and exceptional value for the quality of fruit and work involved.

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

Petit and Gros Manseng are directly pressed and fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel. The multi-vintage blend brings together the 2022, 2023 and 2024 harvests and is bottled with a small sulphur addition, without fining or filtration.

Vineyard & terroir

Les Poudingues combines fruit from Jean-Baptiste Semmartin’s own vineyards with selected organic négociant fruit from across Jurançon. The name refers to the local pudding-stone conglomerate soils that give the wine its warm-stone, saline character.

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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