Domaine Tempier Tourtine (Red)

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  • 2023

    Domaine Tempier Tourtine (Red) 2023 - Highly RecommendedTasted by Elizabeth Gabay MW & Ben Bernheim

    Black tea, lavender and inky saline aromas alongside black inky flowers. Where La Migoua was showing youthful openness, La Tourtine is closed and moody, but this could reverse at any time. On the palate, it is very tight, very black, long and closed. Juicy black fruit and berries, slightly leathery, exceptionally inky and mineral. Steely, oily and dieselly. Remarkably fresh and acidic with firm, grippy tannins that have a closed, taciturn simplicity to them. A little one-dimensional in its youth. This lacks the depth and complexity of some more modern expressions of Bandol that somehow manage to be both brilliant from day one and then forever after.

    Tasted December 2025

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We’re mother and son duo Elizabeth Gabay MW and Ben Bernheim. Between us, we’ve been involved in the wines of southern France for over 30 years. Elizabeth started working with the wines of Provence back in 1986, and for the past 20 years has lived on the eastern edge of south-east France. We’ve worked on three books on rosé: Rosé Understanding the Pink Wine Revolution (2018), Elizabeth Gabay’s Buyers Guide to the Rosés of Southern France (2021 e-guide) and, most recently Rosés of Southern France (2022).

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