Mansengs is the blended white wine in the Domaine Lajibe portfolio, and it's a sensual, wonderfully evocative white wine that it's hard not to fall in love with. On the one hand, it's peachy and pineapple-laden but there is this irresistible, mouth-watering tang and minerality that marks this as something special.

Jean-Baptiste Semmartin is more than just the talented winemaker behind Domaine Lajibe; he also represented France in fencing. There's a glorious amount of cut and thrust in Semmartin's beguiling wines that remind of the oft-forgotten glories that the wilds of SW France can deliver. The winemaking here is slow and deliberate. Heroing the local Gros & Petit Manseng, Semmartin's wonderfully textured wines utilise a long fermentation, extended ageing in old barrels, and minimal filtration or additions of any kind bar a little sulphur at bottling. You want the definition of what tangy, minerally, expressive white wines taste like? These fascinating Jurancon whites are a prime example.