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2022 Domaine de Trévallon Alpilles Rouge...$99.99
Rated 96/100 Bettane & Desseauve Le Guide.
Rated 96/100 Bettane & Desseauve Le Guide.
(Bettane+Desseauve des Vins de France is considered a definitive, comprehensive, and independent annual buying guide to French wines)
Rated 97/100 by La Revue du Vin de France (prestigious monthly French magazine)
Blend: 50% Syrah and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
Since its inception, Domaine de Trévallon has been a trailblazer for quality wine production in the South of France. In 1993 local authorities changed the regulations for grape production in the appellation of Les Beaux de Provence, lowering the permitted percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon to 20%. Domaine de Trévallon’s red is always a blend of 50% Syrah and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon. Refusing to change his style, Eloi opted to produce his wine as a Vin de Pays (Vin de Pays des Bouches du Rhône). By doing so Domaine de Trévallon, like todays “super-Tuscans”, was among the first wineries to choose to go outside local appellation rules to produce higher quality wines.
Above all, Eloi produces “natural wines” with as little human intervention as possible. He avoids excess use of technology which he believes leads to standardized, uniform wines. Eloi uses no pesticides or chemicals in the vineyards and he keeps yields below 25 hectoliters per hectare. In the winery the grapes are not de-stemmed, and only natural indigenous yeasts are used. The reds are aged in large oak foudres for 2 years , are non-filtered, and are only occasionally fined with egg whites before bottling. The reds from Trévallon are always 50% Cabernet Sauvignon & 50% Syrah.
Eloi and Floriane Dürrbach have fond memories of the early years of their estate: “Aubert de Villaine, from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy, was the first to be impressed by our wines. In 1978, he tasted them at the Beaumanière restaurant. He then spoke to his importer in the United States, who was also won over and started buying our reds from us. This importer spoke about it to Robert Parker who tasted vintage 82. He really liked it. We were also the first wine from the Alpilles that Robert Parker spoke about! It was 1984 and that was the beginning for us. We were better known abroad than in France.”
Rated 97/100 by La Revue du Vin de France (prestigious monthly French magazine)
Blend: 50% Syrah and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
Since its inception, Domaine de Trévallon has been a trailblazer for quality wine production in the South of France. In 1993 local authorities changed the regulations for grape production in the appellation of Les Beaux de Provence, lowering the permitted percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon to 20%. Domaine de Trévallon’s red is always a blend of 50% Syrah and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon. Refusing to change his style, Eloi opted to produce his wine as a Vin de Pays (Vin de Pays des Bouches du Rhône). By doing so Domaine de Trévallon, like todays “super-Tuscans”, was among the first wineries to choose to go outside local appellation rules to produce higher quality wines.
Above all, Eloi produces “natural wines” with as little human intervention as possible. He avoids excess use of technology which he believes leads to standardized, uniform wines. Eloi uses no pesticides or chemicals in the vineyards and he keeps yields below 25 hectoliters per hectare. In the winery the grapes are not de-stemmed, and only natural indigenous yeasts are used. The reds are aged in large oak foudres for 2 years , are non-filtered, and are only occasionally fined with egg whites before bottling. The reds from Trévallon are always 50% Cabernet Sauvignon & 50% Syrah.
Eloi and Floriane Dürrbach have fond memories of the early years of their estate: “Aubert de Villaine, from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy, was the first to be impressed by our wines. In 1978, he tasted them at the Beaumanière restaurant. He then spoke to his importer in the United States, who was also won over and started buying our reds from us. This importer spoke about it to Robert Parker who tasted vintage 82. He really liked it. We were also the first wine from the Alpilles that Robert Parker spoke about! It was 1984 and that was the beginning for us. We were better known abroad than in France.”
