Cuvée Spéciale La Migoua Bandol Mourvedre Blend

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Reddish in color with a wide reddish rim and medium intensity.

Pretty nose with wild flowers, red fruits, light earth, herbs, tobacco leaf, light oak, sweet cherries and spices.

Medium bodied and smooth with medium acidity.

Dry on the palate with cherries, cooked plums, oak, tobacco, licorice, chocolates, herbs, spices and earth.

Tangy finish with fine grained tannins and raspberries.

This 20 years old red blend from Bandol is absolutely fantastic. Drinking very nicely right out of the bottle, and feels fresh and engaging.

This Single Vineyard is elegant and powerful. Complex and nicely balanced.

A great sipping wine that will also pair nicely with food.

A blend of 55% Mourvedre,
25% Cinsault, 15% Grenache and 5% Syrah. Aged for 18 months in large French oak barrels.

14.5% alcohol by volume.

93 points.

$200.

By far, the finest red Bandol I’ve ever had. This 1988 sang an operetta to the lamb.

Brilliant light ruby red color. Still fresh with spicy red fruit, leather, herbs and dried plum on the nose. Complex and intense on the palate. Just a real treat to see one of these with proper age. Definitely not a young, opaque and tannic bandol but you could sense that all those things must have been true in this wines youth.

2015 Vintage -Le Migoua - red rim color ,Spice , Cherry/berry ,rosemary, earth, concrete . Semi soft tannins

Transports you straight to the Provence. Underbrush, garrigue, plums and a hint of sweetness. Perfect steak tartare wine.

Wow deep plum ,violets, graphite,earth ,oak in the background , perfectly balanced alcohol is 14.5 abv but really well balanced

Drinking really well but wouldn't cellar further. Herbs, cured meat, cured black olives, seamless and long. Some rustic notes but altogether delicious.

One of Tempiers individual Cuvées La Miguoa. Mid crimson with a slightly Tawny rim. Sooty earthy mineral aromas with a touch of thyme. M plus intensity on the supple delicious palate - Tannins resolving. The La Miguoa has a lesser % of Mourvèdre and more % of Cinsault than the other Tempier Cuvées. Plenty of stuffing to go another 5 to 10 years. In a blind tasting many would pick this as South Australian- coming from a warmer climate. Tasted blind this is where Barb thought it came from.

Savage

Great night at the HQ.