Les Vignes Oubliées : Terrasses du Larzac 2023

A little reserved on the nose, brooding with notes of fresh soil, violets and berries. There's a cool mineral core here, a stony hardness that needs time to crack open. A subtle creamy note on the finish. Give this two or three years to reveal its aromatic potential.

The 2023 Terrasses Du Larzac, a blend predominantly of Grenache Noir with Syrah and Carignan, was—unconventionally—aged in a cave, in large barrels. Quite complex and multi-layered, it shows beautiful black fruit, notes of garrigue, cumin, anise, black tea, and bergamot. Precise, delicate, succulent, and fairly long, with a calm energy, it exhales on the finish and shows great potential. Drink 2025–2032.

60% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 20% Carignan. Certified organic (AB). Tasted blind. This really does smell like strawberry cordial mixed with pomegranate juice and blitzed raspberries – pure fruit juice. But on the palate it’s a tapestry of exuberant juicy sweetness, thyme, essence of berries, berry blossom and orchard florals, embroidered with darker threads of graphite, loam, truffle and coal. The tannins fill the intersitial spaces with ink dust and quarry-dust pauses. Complex and intriguing. Mouth-wateringly more-ish. (TC)