Domaine la Tour Vieille: Banyuls Reserva
Description
Banyuls 'Réserva' is a sweet, red wine - a classic blend of Grenache Noir, Grenache Gris and Carignan. It has a spicy, dried fruit, pluminess, rather like a tawny port.
- Style: Red Wine, Sweet (Moelleux), Full-bodied
- Region: Roussillon, Banyuls,
- Producer: Christine Campadieu & Vincent Cantié
- Grape variety (Cépage): Grenache Gris, Grenache Noir
- Wine pairing - drink with: Hard Cheese, Chocolate desserts, Cake
- Cellarage: Like Port or Madeira, Banyuls Réserva has good longevity and will keep for 20 years.
- Vinification: The vines are planted on precipitous slopes of schist, making machine-harvesting out of the question. Following the harvest, fermentation is arrested by a process of mutage whereby a precise volume of pure alcohol is added to the wine to kill the yeast cells driving fermentation, leaving some unconverted sugar and fortifying the wine. The wine is then blended with older vintages through a solera system which dates back to 1952, hence its non-vintage status. This wine is classified as a Vin Doux Naturel.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 16%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download
Domaine la Tour Vieille: Banyuls Réserva
Banyuls 'Réserva' is dark, sweet and juicy with complex dried fruit flavours. It can be drunk lightly-chilled as an aperitif or as a particularly successful partner to chocolate desserts.
What others think of this wine...
by Jancis Robinson in the Financial Times Weekend says:Grenache Gris and Grenache Noir. Alcohol-steeped raisins. Rich, sweet, figgy from just north of the Spanish border in Roussillon. Much drier tasting than it smells.
Tim Atkin in The Observer Magazine says:Yapp Brothers stocks the wines from Domaine de la Tour Vieille, whose Banyuls Reserva and Collioure la Pinède are both excellent.
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