Tour du Bon Bandol 2021 Style_Sparkling half in stainless steel and

half in stainless steel and half in old wooden barrels

Brendan Stater-West farms a little over half a hectare of Cabernet Franc at a site called La Ripaille on that limestone ground

and pour it into a white wine glass

where wine director Kevin O'Connor and wine salesman Matt Licklider

not the heavy

Tour du Bon Bandol 2021 Style_Sparkling half in stainless steel andThe Land Bandol is Provence's great red wine appellation, a natural amphitheater of terraced hills wrapped around the Mediterranean west of Toulon. This is Mourvdre country: a late, difficult grape that needs heat and sea to ripen fully, and finds both here. La Tour du Bon farms limestone and sandy plots at around 150 meters, on a mix of red earth, clay, sand, and gravel over hard limestone bedrock. With some 300 days of sun a year cooled by sea air,