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Experience French Wines like never before… A pure terroir expression, from the red pebble soils of Vacqueyras, to Montblanc’s sea breezes, to the limestone hills of Cadillac.

Château Vieille Tour Exception | 2018 | Côtes de Bordeaux, France

The Cadillac Red

Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
Low Intervention
Old Vine
Côtes de Bordeaux (Red Cadillac)
Only 8,000 bottles produced

Côtes de Bordeaux is a franken-appellation. It’s not a contiguous area, but rather a lazy amalgam of four older appellations on the west and east sides of Bordeaux dreamed up in a bureaucrat’s office rather than in the field. This Vieille Tour is really from Cadillac, on the east bank of the Garonne river, opposite Cérons, Barsac, and Sauternes – all sweet wine regions where the white grapes, infected with botrytis, shrivel prematurely, concentrating flavor and sugar before harvest.

Cadillac, too, is a sweet white wine region. But this is not a sweet white. Vieille Tour is a full-bodied red with a ripe plum nose and spicy vanilla and cacao in the mouth. That’s why this 2018 bears the Côtes de Bordeaux, not the Cadillac, appellation.

Not that winemaker Jérome Gouin is terribly concerned with labels. At his core, he’s a farmer. His concern is for his land – a small plot planted around a ruined tower overlooking the Garonne Valley. Visit there during the harvest and you’ll see daughter Lilly-Hanna running the rows, helping as her father and mother harvest each bunch with their own hands, the same manual method used for every other stage of the journey from vine to bottle (Vieille Tour would be organic if Jérome bothered with the Byzantine process of getting a certification).

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Clefs des Murailles Vacqueyras | 2018 | Rhône Valley, France

The Winemaking Dynasty’s Rhône Red

Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre
Old Vine
Vacqueyras (Southern Rhône)

In 1854, the Double family acquired the Château de Beaupré, near Aix-en-Provence, where they had previously produced their wine. With the experience gained as part of this well reputed winemakering family, Maxime & Phanette Double (the third generation at the Château de Beaupré) decided to launch their own range of wines.

Outside their small medieval village of Vacqueyras, the ancient limestone mixes with clay and a red pebble topsoil to produce wines that can be a bit of a shotgun blast to the palate, in the manner of a less fussy and more forceful Chateauneuf. What makes Phanette unique is her ability to make Vacqueyras elegant.

That kind of know-how comes only with a deep understanding of the red pebble and limestone clay terroir. The Double’s generational knowledge pays off in this 2018, made by fermenting grenache and mourvedre together, in a traditional manner, while the syrah undergoes carbonic maceration for further extraction of color and flavor. An intense bouquet of wild fruits, strawberry and blueberry in the nose, followed by a graceful, surprisingly well-structured explosion of fruit (plus a hint of licorice?) in the mouth.

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Maison Ventenac Le Mas | 2015 | Cabardès, France

The King of Cabardès

Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Syrah
Organic, Low Sulphite
Old Vine
Cabardès (Languedoc)

“Ici, pas de maquillage!” says rebel winemaker Olivier Ramé (“no make-up here!”)

We were first introduced to Olivier back in 2019 when Julien Miquel turned us onto his wine, L’Intrus (“the trespasser”) for our first ever French collection. L’Intrus remains one of the most popular wines we’ve ever sourced for the Partnership. “Easily a 90+ point wine if anyone knew about it,” remarked Julien at the time.

A couple years later people are finally beginning to discover Olivier. Le Mas has a 90+ score from none other than Robert Parker. But don’t worry that success has changed Olivier. He still weeds and harvests by hand; he still eschews chemicals and lab grown yeast. (He is even contemplating swapping out his concrete, stainless steel, and oak containers for terracotta amphorae.)

With organic grapes and 18 months in French oak, this limited run wine (1,000 cases only) draws the best out of its limestone terroir for an inky color, a pure minerality, and a powerful, yet balanced, wild fruit expression.

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Bruno Andreu Les Prunelles de Montblanc Cuvée Prestige | 2019 | Montblanc, France

The Mediterranean Red

Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre
Organic
Languedoc
Old Vine

On the Mediterranean coast, in the village of Montblanc, stands a white stone church with a tower and a hidden staircase. Back in the 8th century, the tower offered refuge to terrified villagers during Viking raids.

Montblanc gets its name from the white stone, a type of chalk, found throughout the area. That stone, along with a gravel topsoil, is what makes the terroir in this southerly part of Languedoc so desirable to a winemaker like Bruno Andreu. He’s a man who likes typicity – a wine that can come from nowhere else than the terroir where it was born.

With a strong sea influence, and full-sun southern exposure, Bruno’s grapes drink in the French Mediterranean as they grow. He then harvests them at night to preserve peak aromatics – mature black fruit, fresh red berries, and southern spice. When this label says “prestige,” you can believe it. Drink this on a special occasion within the next year and a half.

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