Note: Guide Hachette 2** (Remarkable wine)
"The wine reveals a complex and concentrated bouquet of peppery, vanilla, and fruity notes (blackcurrant, blackberry). The palate combines volume, power, silky tannins, and remarkable length. Definitely a wine for aging, which can be left in the cellar for eight to ten years and served with a rack of lamb. " (Le Guide Hachette des Vins 2012)
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Mouth
Spicy, peppery, leaving a mineral impression reminiscent of the estate's sandstone. Tobacco, truffle, and lily mingle with the tangy note of Carignan.
Serve
at 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink from
2011
Drink before
2015
Food and wine pairings
A déguster sur des viandes relevées, une daube de boeuf, un navarin d'agneau, un couscous... <br/>
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
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 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.