The estate's red Bandol is a true "blood of the earth." It is a wine that aims to be accessible but with a beautiful aromatic complexity provided by four grape varieties, with Mourvèdre making up the majority. The palate is spicy and racy, with dense, distinguished tannins giving it excellent aging potential. A Bandol of choice and a "Canon du mourvèdre." (La revue du vin de France 2024)
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Eye
Deep garnet color
Nose
Powerful aromas of black and red fruits, with a lovely minty freshness.
Mouth
Spicy and elegant, complex aromatic palette, dense and distinguished tannins
Serve
At 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink before
2033
Food and wine pairings
Enjoy with spicy meats, beef stew, lamb navarin, couscous...
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated estate (2024 guide) 3 stars (High-quality production, serving as a benchmark in its sector)
About the estate:
Agnès Hocquard-Henry runs her estate with the aim of producing small quantities of high-quality wine. On her 14 hectares, she produces elegant wines that reflect the terroir, sometimes straying from the beaten track to create original micro-vintages. The reds, rosés, and whites are beautifully crafted, but the most surprising is the cuvée en-sol, produced in tiny quantities with Elisabetta Foradori, the high priestess of amphora wines in Italy. The Mourvèdre expresses a dimension of suppleness 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
Wine rated (2024 guide) 93/100
Rated estate (2024 guide) 2 stars (These very large estates, often blessed with fabulous terroirs, are must-haves which, thanks to their consistency and the excellence of their production, deserve a place in the cellars of discerning wine lovers).
About wine:
A classic Mourvèdre, the 2021 is a wine for aging, with suppleness and elegance to come with age.
About the estate:
The Hocquard family has been at the helm of this estate since 1968. Located in Le Castellet, La Tour du Bon benefits from a unique terroir of limestone and sandy soils with varied exposures, making it one of the earliest ripening vineyards in Bandol. The estate began to make a name for itself in the mid-1980s, notably with the creation in 1987 of the Saint-Ferréol cuvée, a sunny, refined red wine from three plots planted around a 20-million-year-old hill. Then, from 1990 onwards, with the arrival of Agnès Henry-Hocquard at the head of the estate, the wine took on a whole new dimension! Surrounded by Loire winemakers (Thierry Puzelat and Antoine Pouponeau), she has maintained a course of excellence with wines that retain great personality and age harmoniously with a delicate profile, without ever becoming overly mature, extracted, or aged. Since 2013, the curious winemaker has been isolating Mourvèdre grapes for the En Sol cuvée, macerated for six months in amphorae. This is an ancestral but perilous practice (the wines can become heavy and lack precision), but it is masterfully executed in a fine red with a rare iodine sensation.
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