Golden and delicate, with intensely fragrant notes, the nose is both fruity and floral. The palate is full-bodied, with a lovely, concentrated texture. A great white wine from Provence—always hard and rare to find—that never fails to impress!
Ingredients and nutrition facts- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Designation
- Bandol AOP
- Bottled by
- Domaine Tempier
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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This cuvée is a blend of 60% Clairette, 18% Ugni Blanc, 19% Bourboulenc and 3% Marsanne, from vines around 20 years old, cultivated biodynamically and planted in the Bandol appellation on clay-limestone soils. The grapes are harvested by hand in the traditional manner with small crates. The vinification involves very little intervention: destemming of the grapes, direct pressing, temperature control, and 10 months of maturation in barrels, without new oak. Bottled at the estate.
Daniel Ravier
Daniel Ravier, an exacting engineer born in the Savoy region, was entrusted with managing this estate by the Peyrauds, a mythic Bandol wine family. And Tempier would indeed be nothing were it not for Lucie and Lucien Peyraud, who ran the estate over four decades. Theirs was the struggle of a lifetime, in which Lucien Peyraud unquestionably became the spiritual father of Bandol, the pope of...
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