Terrasse à l'Ombre
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Dry and full-bodied. Ripe red and black berries first, then fresh pepper, sweet spice and dried herbs. High tannins, but they come out velvety rather than hard, with liquorice and violet underneath and a long finish. It is mostly Syrah, the same grape as Shiraz, so if you drink Australian reds you know roughly where this sits.
Roast duck first. It also takes a rib of beef, pork chops, anything off the barbecue, and hard cheese at the end. At 15.5% it wants food rather than a sofa. Serve it at 16 to 18°C, cellar cool rather than room temperature.
Sixty-five percent Syrah, thirty-five percent Grenache Noir, off limestone. Thirty days on the skins, which is where the grip and the depth come from. The Grenache stays in cement. The Syrah goes into new oak barrels. They made seventeen thousand litres.
Château de Gourdon is the Tikveš estate in France, at Bollène in the Southern Rhône. Same house as the Mistral au Jardin rosé and the Fontaine du Sud white, further up the range.
Dark ruby with purple reflections. Ripe red and black berries, fresh pepper, sweet spice and aromatic herbs. Dry, with medium-high acidity, high tannins and a full body. Liquorice and violet, then velvety fine-grained tannins and a long finish.
Roast duck. Aged beef and pork chops. Barbecue. Hard cheese.
Terrasse à l'Ombre, 2022
- Gold, Mundus Vini Spring Tasting 2025