A fresh, well-balanced vintage that promises a wine that is approachable in its youth yet will also age beautifully: this Vacqueyras is luscious and fruit-forward, surprisingly drinkable for its appellation, with notes of soft spices, pepper, black olives, menthol, and cocoa...
Ingredients and nutrition facts
Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah, from organically farmed vines co-planted in 2014 on alluvial terraces covered with rolled pebbles, on the Garrigues plateau of Vacqueyras. Manual harvest from 30/08 to 22/09. Vinification: partially destemmed grapes, moved by gravity, 48-hour cold maceration, manual punch-downs for around ten days, followed by gentle pump-overs during the three weeks of maceration. Pressed, then aged for 15 months in cement vats. Bottled on the 8th of December 2025 without fining, very light filtration, total SO2 of 50 mg/l.
The story of Château Bois d’Arlène is truly one of a kind! It all starts with a long-standing friendship between Norge Larson (a physicist and oceanographer based in Seattle) and Philippe Bernard (nurseryman and winemaker in Beaumes-de-Venise). For nearly 20 years, Norge and his wife Arlène spent every summer in Vacqueyras, met Philippe — who was making wine at Domaine de la Ligière — and, as...
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