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The Ultimate Year-Round Rosé

The Ultimate Year-Round Rosé

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2024 Bandol Rosé

2024 Bandol Rosé

Domaine de Terrebrune   

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Domaine de Terrebrune    France   |  Provence   |  Bandol

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Would you consider going out to dinner only in spring? Limiting your bike riding to the summer months? Hanging out with friends just in autumn? Of course not! There’s a place for seasonality in our lives, but not for such enjoyable pursuits as these, and certainly not for exceptional rosé–and the Bandol from Domaine de Terrebrune is nothing short of exceptional. Vigneron Reynald Delille is a rosé master and revered by his Provençal peers for the complexity and age-worthiness of his bottling each year. He’d be the first to tell you to drink it year-round, or perhaps even in five years.
      While a cool glass of Terrebrune’s dry, peach-scented Bandol rosé is the bee’s knees on a warm summer afternoon, it’s also deliciously bracing with oysters on a blustery winter day, delightful with a salad made from spring’s first produce, and the perfect complement to your Thanksgiving feast. So what if it’s cold and gray outside? Don’t let something as arbitrary as the weather or the tilt of the Earth’s axis keep you from a cool glass of this Provençal classic.

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About The Region

Provence

map of Provence

There is perhaps no region more closely aligned with the history of Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant than Provence. While Kermit began his career as a Burgundy specialist, he soon fell in love with Provence and its wines, notably the legendary Bandols of Domaine Tempier, which he began importing in 1977. He later began living in the area part-time, returning frequently between tasting trips, and today he spends most of his time at his home just outside of Bandol.

Provence is thought to be France’s most ancient wine region, established when Greek settlers landed in the modern-day port city of Marseille in the 6th century BC. The conditions here are ideal for cultivation of the grapevine, with a hot, dry climate and a prevalence of poor, rocky soils, primarily limestone-based, suitable for vines and not much else. The ever-present southern sunshine as well as the mistral, a cold, drying wind from the northwest that helps keep the vines free of disease, are crucial elements of Provençal terroir. Wild herbs from the pervasive scrubland, called garrigue, and cooling saline breezes from the Mediterranean also contribute to the quality and character of wines in all three colors.

Provence is well known for its rosés, but red wines have always held importance here. The very best, such as those from Bandol, possess great depth and a capacity for long-term aging. The white wines, notably those of Cassis, offer weight balanced by a maritime freshness, making them ideal pairings for the local seafood. Mourvèdre reigns king for red grapes, supported mainly by Grenache and Cinsault, while Clairette, Marsanne, Rolle, and Ugni Blanc are the region’s principal white grapes.

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Kermit inspecting wine barrels

For the wines that I buy I insist that the winemaker leave them whole, intact. I go into the cellars now and select specific barrels or cuvées, and I request that they be bottled without stripping them with filters or other devices. This means that many of our wines will arrive with a smudge of sediment and will throw a more important deposit as time goes by, It also means the wine will taste better.

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