Domaine la Monardiere Vaqueyras Les 2 Monardes 2023 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider creamy cheeses

creamy cheeses

Dark stone fruit

and alcohol

Open a bottle in five years and it'll keep going for another fifteen

Eric Jensen of Booker named it for his parents

Domaine la Monardiere Vaqueyras Les 2 Monardes 2023 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider creamy cheesesMonarde is the French name for bee balm, the scruffy purple wildflower that grows wild across the southern Rhone, and this is the wine the estate named after itself. The Vache family bought La Monardiere in 1987, converted to organic farming in 2000 and got certified in 2010, which puts them years ahead of most of Vaqueyras. This is 70% Grenache and 30% Syrah off forty year old vines, hand harvested, fermented with native yeasts in concrete, aged in