Domaine Tempier Bandol Rouge Lulu & Lucien 2021From Kermit Lynch's (the American importer) website: "Of all of the domaines we represent, no other serves more as our cornerstone, stands more in the defense of terroir, and is more intricately interwoven with our own history, than that of the iconic Peyraud family of Domaine Tempier. The pages that Kermit has written about them alone rival those of his dear friend, Richard Olney, who wrote the definitive history of the domaine and was the first to

the Loir River isn’t the Loire River

liqourice root and smoked sandalwood

powerful wine that shows all the breadth of Serralunga

layered with iron filings

His first winemaking job was at Hallcrest Vineyards

"The Giachini Farmhouse in the Annunziata hamlet of La Morra has overlooked the vineyard between the Bricco Rocca cru and Annunziata for a very long time

The Pascal Biotteau Anjou Rouge is that wine: a red of buoyant energy

This is Barbaresco without ego

To put it simply

Medium-light on its feet

tied tightly and evocatively to the sites they pulled from

tree and clove oil