Terrebrune Bandol 2020 Country_Netherlands mineral grip

mineral grip

Winemaking practices have remained essentially unchanged: fermentation in wooden vats

A stellar vintage for whites across Chassagne

Stater-West trained under Guiberteau before launching his own project in 2015

Terrebrune Bandol 2020 Country_Netherlands mineral gripThe Land Terrebrune sits at Ollioules, on the eastern edge of the Bandol appellation in Provence, and its name says everything: terre brune, brown earth. Beneath the thin brown clay topsoil lies the estate's secret, a bed of blue, fissured Trias limestone laid down some 200 million years ago and washed down from the Gros Cerveau mountain above. That combination of iron rich clay and ancient blue limestone gives Terrebrune a pronounced minerality and a