Note: Guide Hachette 2** (Remarkable Wine)
“This wine reveals a complex and concentrated bouquet of peppery, vanilla, and fruity notes (blackcurrant, blackberry). On the palate, it combines body, power, silky tannins, and remarkable length. Undoubtedly a wine for aging, it can be cellared for eight to ten years and served with a rack of lamb. ” (Le Guide Hachette des Vins 2012)
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Palate
Spicy and peppery, with a mineral character reminiscent of the estate’s sandstone soils. Notes of tobacco, truffle, and lily blend with the tart notes of the Carignan.
Serve
at 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink starting at
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 that serves as a benchmark in its sector)
About the estate:
Agnès Hocquard-Henry runs her estate with the philosophy of producing less but better. On her 14 hectares, she crafts elegant wines that reflect the terroir, sometimes venturing off the beaten path to create original micro-cuvées. The reds, rosés, and whites are beautifully crafted, but the most surprising is the “en-sol” cuvée, produced in minuscule quantities with Elisabetta Foradori, the leading authority on amphora wines in Italy. Here, the Mourvèdre expresses a surprising suppleness and 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 exceptional estates, often boasting fabulous terroirs, are must-haves that, thanks to the consistency and excellence of their wines, 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. 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 wines in Bandol. As early as the mid-1980s, the estate began to make a name for itself, notably with the creation in 1987 of the Saint-Ferréol cuvée—a sunny, refined red wine sourced from three plots planted around a hill that is twenty million years old. Then, starting in 1990 and with the arrival of Agnès Henry-Hocquard at the helm of the estate, the wine reached new heights! Surrounded by winemakers from the Loire Valley (Thierry Puzelat and Antoine Pouponeau), she has successfully maintained a commitment to excellence, producing wines that retain great character and age harmoniously with a delicate profile, without ever becoming overripe or overly extracted or aged. Since 2013, this curious winemaker has been setting aside Mourvèdre grapes for the En Sol cuvée, which is macerated for six months in amphorae. This is an ancestral yet perilous practice—the wines can become heavy and lack precision—but she has mastered it magnificently, producing a refined red with a rare iodine-like quality.
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