All will age gracefully for well over a decade

We are not talking about Brigitte, Sophia or Lauren here, but David Moore’s description of the single vineyard cuvées of Domaine Tempier’s Bandol in Provence on page 280 of the new edition of Wine Behind The Label. We had the opportunity of drinking a bottle of the 1998 Tourtine  cuvée the other day, unsurpassed by its pure elegance, power and grace – an iron hand in a velvet glove. It just goes to show how well patience is rewarded