Bandol
Bandol Wine - Buy Wine from the Bandol Region of France
If (like me) you have a penchant for a noir crime novel and are partial to the food and wine of Provence, you should make a beeline for Jean-Claude Izzo’s peerless ‘Marseilles Trilogy’, published in English by Europa Editions. The dark underbelly of Marseilles is exposed therein with insight and affection and it is littered with references to the local wine and cuisine. You have to wait until page 102 of the final book before the Domaine Bunan gets amention but what fun you’ll have getting there, especially if you have a few bottles of their excellent Bandol to hand.
The Bunan family’s estate is based in an unrivalled location on an escarpment below the medieval hill village of La Cadière. Here they craft a range of quintessential Bandol from traditional grape varieties. For decades the Bunan wines have been amongst the best in the appellation, but on recent form they appear to be making a concerted drive for qualitative domination.
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