This is a special cuvée from Chateau de Segries. It was first released with the 2013 vintage. It is not made every year, but only when the harvest is of a particular level of quality. They also made 2015 and 2016 so far.
Dark and inky, with intense and complex aromas. Lush strawberry and blackberry fruit flavors combine with spice components, garrigue, pepper and licorice. Long and pleasant finish with round, well-integrated tannins.
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"The estate’s top wine is the 2016 Lirac Secret de la Grange, a 90-10 blend of Grenache and Syrah that never sees oak. This full-bodied blend is fabulously concentrated and lush, with ripe fruit flavors of raspberries and stone fruits, an intriguing hint of almond paste and a rich, long finish tinged with licorice. It should drink well for up to a decade. - Joe Czerwinski"
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #233, October 2017), 93 pts
"Crisp, spice-inflected blackberry and black cherry flavors are anchored by a cooling mineral undertone in this stand-out Grenache-Syrah blend. It's ripe and glossy on the palate but pertly balanced with bristling acidity and a lingering stony finish. At peak now but should improve through 2028 and hold further. - ANNA LEE C. IIJIMA"
- Wine Enthusiast (December 2020), 93 pts
"Even better, the 2016 Lirac Secret De La Grange is a Grenache-dominated cuvée (there’s 10% Syrah) that was brought up all in concrete tanks. This medium to full-bodied, silky effort has slightly more elegance and purity than the base cuvée and gives up smoking good notes of black and blue fruits, violets, spice box, and cedar. Drink it over the coming 7-8 years."
- Jeb Dunnuck (September 26th 2018), 92 pts
"The 2015 Lirac Secret de la Grange is just as good as the 2016. It’s the same blend (90-10 Grenache-Syrah), made the same way, without any wood. The fruit is a bit more evolved toward cherries and spice rather than the bright raspberries of youth, but it’s still full-bodied, creamy in texture and rich, with a long finish. Drink now to 2025. As a point of reference, the 2013 and 2014, both significantly more difficult vintages, lag only a couple of points behind and are drinking well at the moment. - Joe Czerwinski"
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #233, October 2017), 93 pts
Owner Henri de Lanzac (cousin of the Delorme family of Domaine de la Mordorée) purchased Chateau de Segries in 1994 from Count Henri de Regis, the founder of the Lirac ...
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