Roussillon
Tomeu - 2017 - Bruno Duchêne
Domaine Bruno Duchêne
A sweet passerillé wine. Bruno named the wine after his son, Tomeu, and it has enough sweetness to compete with children’s fruit juice! Palate: a rich, sweet wine with considerable freshness.
- Size
- 50 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 14.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2037
- rock’n’roll
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Barely 100 litres produced by scraping together the Grenache and Carignan grapes that remained on the vine come autumn, and had almost dried to raisins. A natural winemaker, Bruno has his work cut out for him with his steep terraced parcels. Composed mainly of schist soils, mechanised farming is impossible here, so Bruno can only use a horse for ploughing. Vinification: maceration, punching of the cap every drop of juice.

Bruno Duchêne
Bruno Duchêne, yet another kid from the northern France who headed south for the sunshine of Roussillon. Settling here in 2002 in a middle of a vineyard of vines that were clearly exceptional, but also impossible to work – at least with tractor. A vigneron in the right place at the right time, the vines he acquired were lovely terraced parcels, unsuitable for mechanised farming due to their...
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