White wines

White Bandol wine:“BLANC DE BLANCS”
This wine is made from “Clairette pointue” and “Ugni” (two white grape varieties) and it is dry, round but clean, long in the mouth. Its distinctive qualities are its finesse, its fruity freshness, its unique flowery and often complex bouquet combining the fragrancy of the lime tree with that of the hawthorne.
It should be served cool, like the “rosé” with all kinds of fish, shellfish, crayfish and all sea-food. It also does justice to goat cheese.

Rose wines

Begin by tasting it as an aperitif and then go on making its acquaintance all through the meal.
This “rosé” is a very pate colour, like a rose petal and comes from direct crushing of the same “cépages” that produce the red Wine. It is heady with a lingering taste that brings the fragrancy of the terraces (“restanques”) where it grew into your glass. This “rosé” is popular because of its easy approach, its slightly spicy flavour and its fullness.. Bandol “rosé” wine in a glass heralds a brilliant “fete” although it is already one in itself.
It goes particularly well with poultry, white meats, “charcuterie”, mixed summer salads, and of course all spicy or exotic dishes and most fish. The different dishes and the wines combine to show one another off to their mutual advantage. Like Champagne it is a marvelous wine to drink when thirsty !
It should be served cool but not too cool: 55° F.

Red wines The wines are vatted for a long time (from 8 to 14 days at about 86° F.) to extract good colours and enough tannins to obtain the structure of a wine which can age... These are the only red wines of France which must be aged for 18 months in oak barrels. They have mellowed in the wood, their tanins have softened. The colour is strong, they are wines with good legs when twirled: the wine runs slowly down the sides like tears. A wine with a certain roundness but with lots of tannic structure. But Is leaves behind an impression of elegance and finesse. Balance, elegance, harmony -in other words the “three sweet Graces” of Bandol wine, of the best Bandol wine. Once you have found a great Bandol, you can then, either drink it young, or keep it waiting in your cellar. If you drink it young it will be glorious to your palate. The fragrance of the blackberry will compete for first place with that of other red berries, violets and other flowers. These wines are full and rich but always flowery, elegant and well balanced, long in the mouth. It is high quality wine made with tender care.