Note: Guide Hachette 2** (Remarkable wine)
"The wine reveals a complex, concentrated bouquet of peppery, vanilla and fruity notes (blackcurrant, blackberry). The palate combines volume, power, silky tannins and remarkable length. A wine for laying down, which can be forgotten for eight to ten years in the cellar and served with a rack of lamb". (Le Guide Hachette des Vins 2012)
Features
Estate
Domaine de la Tour du Bon
Cuvée
Saint Féréol
Vintage
2008
Designation
Bandol
Region
Provence
Grape varieties
85% Mourvèdre, 15% Carignan
Terroirs
Clayey-limestone, marly
Viticulture
cultivation that respects vines and soils
Harvest
manual
Winemaking
traditional vinification with indigenous yeasts, temperature control
Breeding
18 months in lightning
Alcohol content
13,5%
Tasting & pairing
Mouth
spicy, peppery, leaving a mineral imprint reminiscent of the estate's sandstone. Tobacco, truffle and lily mingle with the acidic note of carrignan.
Serve
at 16-18°C
Open
1h before
Drink from
2011
Drink before
2015
Food and wine pairing
A déguster sur des viandes relevées, une daube de boeuf, un navarin d'agneau, un couscous... <br/>
Domaine de la Tour du Bon
Bandol
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Domaine rated (guide 2024) 3*Stars (High-quality production that can serve as a benchmark in its sector)
About the domain :
Agnès Hocquard-Henry runs her domaine with the spirit of producing little but well. On her 14 hectares, she produces elegant wines that are close to the terroir, sometimes leaving the beaten track to create original micro-cuvées. The reds, rosés and whites are beautifully crafted, but the most surprising is the cuvée en-sol, made in tiny quantities with Elisabetta Foradori, Italy's papilla of amphora wines. Here, Mourvèdre expresses a supple dimension and unexpected finesse, vibrant and stripped of all artifice. We loved it!
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Domaine rated (guide 2024) 2*Stars (These great estates, often endowed with fabulous terroirs, are must-haves which, thanks to their consistency and the excellence of their production, must be included in the cellars of discerning wine lovers).
About the domain :
The Hocquard family has run this estate since 1968. Located in Castellet, La Tour du Bon benefits from a unique terroir of limestone and sandy soils with varied exposure, making it one of the earliest-growing vineyards in Bandol. By the mid-1980s, the estate had already made a name for itself, with the 1987 creation of the Cuvée Saint-Ferréol, a fine, sunny red made from three parcels planted around a twenty-million-year-old hill. Then, in 1990, with the arrival of Agnès Henry-Hocquard at the head of the estate, the wine took on a new dimension! Surrounded by winemakers from the Loire Valley (Thierry Puzelat and Antoine Pouponeau), she has managed to stay the course of excellence, with wines that retain great personality and age harmoniously in a delicate profile without ever over-ripening, over-extracting or over-ageing. Since 2013, the inquisitive winemaker has been isolating Mourvèdre grapes for the En Sol cuvée, macerated for six months in amphora. An ancestral but perilous practice (the wines can become heavy and lack precision) magnificently mastered in a fine red with a rare iodine sensation.
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