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Bandol 'La Tourtine', Domaine Tempier 2011
Delicious black-fruit flavours and savoury complexity are balanced with great elegance and freshness. The 2011 is rich and concentrated veering towards lead pencil minerality.
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Code: FC26911
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Very full and rich
- Mourvedre
- Now to 2024
- 15% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, natural
Domaine Tempier
The story of the people behind Domaine Tempier is one of France’s most inspiring wine histories. The Tempier family established the estate in 1834, building a house just outside the seaport village of Bandol between Toulon and Marseilles in the Provence region. Over the next century, the family overcame both the phylloxera crisis and the 1929 worldwide financial meltdown, and even won their first gold medal in 1855, until a new chapter was marked in 1936.
In this year, Lucie Tempier married Lucien Peyraud, a man who had fallen deeply in love both with Lucie and with the idea of being a winemaker. He and Lucie replanted the 38 hectares of family vineyards with noble varieties like grenache, cinsault and mourvèdre. With vines spread out across the steep slopes which lead down to the Mediterranean coast in a natural amphitheatre and vineyards lined with cypress trees, it is not hard to see why the estate held such appeal to the newlyweds.
Lucien’s passion was not limited to his own domaine. Over the 40 years that he managed the estate, he became much better known for his tireless campaigning, both for the mourvèdre grape (which he knew to be ideally suited to the terroir here, and in which he saw great ageing potential) and more importantly for raising the status of Bandol winemakers.
It is thanks in part to him that AOC Bandol is now recognised as a great winemaking region, and also that all AOC Bandol red wines must contain a minimum of 50% mourvèdre. Even today, winemakers...
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