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Château Pibarnon, Les Restanques, Bandol rouge - 2021

This second wine from Pibarnon has a lovely name: that of the famous terraces that shape the estate's great terroir. The wine has lovely notes of cherry and tobacco, and only gets fuller with air. The body is supple, already approachable, with a delicious tannic base. Refined, it is close to a great wine but with more immediacy. Decant for at least an hour!
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Viticulture

Second wine of Pibarnon. Restanques are the terraces on which the vines are planted. Made from the same terroir, between limestone and clay, but from slightly younger vines (8 to 12 years old), it is also more marked by Grenache. Surface area: 4 ha of hillside terraces at 200 m altitude. Yields of 35 hl/ha. Hand-harvested, in 20kg crates.

Oenology

Vinification in vats, using gravity. Total destemming. Daily punching down to extract fine skin tannins. Temperature control to preserve the aromas of fresh berries. Aged for 18 months, partly in new barrels from central France, the rest in oak tuns.

Suggestions for accompaniment

Veal grenadins with mushrooms - Rabbit skewers with tarragon - Risotto with boletus - Cheeses.

Domain
At the age of 50, Eric de Saint-Victor's parents, Henri and Catherine, fell in love with Pibarnon, at the time a small Bandolais estate of 3.5 hectares run by a man from the Italian Piedmont. We are in 1978 and the work that awaits the couple is not small. They had to remodel the vineyard, extend it, consolidate the terraces and perpetuate the cultivation of Mourvèdre plants anchored in the hard limestone. Let's remember that at that time, the Provence of wine was a bit like the Far West. Nearly 40 years later, the estate covers almost 50 hectares, half of which are vineyards, divided into multiple restanques (terraces) which form an aesthetic circus testifying to a beautiful stubbornness of civilisation. They cover the hillside on all sides, the furthest being one or two kilometres away. In the early 1990s, Eric de Saint-Victor joined his parents on the property, refining the tight but free style they had developed. After having somewhat abandoned the whole crop during the 2000s, he has been working more with the "rafle" in recent vintages, discussions with great Burgundian winemakers having no doubt contributed to this. The maturing process is still traditional, mainly in large oak tuns.
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