La Cave
Nine bottles out of the cellar under the mas. Bought over eleven years, drunk over the next eleven, or sold to someone who will take them seriously.
Everything here has been slept beside.
Open to all
2001
Domaine Tempier, Cuvée Cabassaou
£410
II remaining
1996
Château Rayas, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
£1,240
I remaining
1999
Jean-Louis Chave, Hermitage Rouge
£760
II remaining
2009
Clos Rougeard, Le Bourg
£520
III remaining
2014
Coche-Dury, Meursault
£980
Gone
1997
Château d'Yquem
£340
IV remaining
2005
Domaine de Trévallon
£180
VI remaining
2012
Overnoy-Houillon, Ploussard
£295
I remaining
2010
Clos du Signal, Parcelle C
£62
In cellar
How this works.
Write to us with the bottle and a delivery address. We reply with provenance,
storage history and a payment link within two working days. Everything ships in a
temperature-controlled case from the mas, or waits in the cellar for you to collect
it at a residency. Nothing on this list has left our own storage since it was bought.
Buy in the £14 to £30 window for eighteen months first.
§ II
Before you spend £1,240 on a bottle.
I
Below fourteen pounds, tax and glass and shipping eat almost all of it.
You are drinking process, not place.
II
Between fourteen and thirty, the money starts reaching the wine and
quality climbs sharply. Live here. Buy the same grape from four places.
III
Above thirty, improvement continues but the curve flattens hard and
scarcity does most of the pricing. That is what this page is.
IV
You will learn more from twelve bottles bought deliberately at £22
than from one bought reverently at £300. Do that first. Then come back.
Bandol in November