Mourvèdre at its best! Warm, slightly wild, slightly soft sofa leather, but essentially fabulously ripe fruit, fully integrated with oak.
The Cuvée Spéciale is 80% Mourvedre, with the balance being Carignan, Grenache and Cinsault. With every sniff and slurp, different nuances are revealed - fresh earth, black pepper, grilled meat, cinnamon, bay, sage, blackberry, prune and blackcurrant. The finish is fresh and classy, with rounded tannins - classic drink or keep quality wine. A great wine with still lots to give.
Try with meatballs in a rich tomato sauce, prime pink beef or mushroom risotto with roasted garlic.
Domaine Lafran Veyrolles is widely recognised as one of the top three producers in the appellation and rightly so. The wines they produce just make you want to up-sticks and move to France and live there for the rest of your life!
The Jouve-Ferec family runs this small, traditional estate, with just 10 ha of vines in the classic clay-limestone terre rouge of Bandol. Bandol is Provence's most important wine region and one, moreover that fulfills many modern wine drinker's criteria for pleasure and Domaine Lafran Veyrolles red's have made it one of the stars of the appellation.
Decanter World Wine Awards 2008 Silver Medal (2005 vintage)
