2/3 Syrah and 1/3 Mourvèdre, aged largely in old oak. Vibrant purple. Intensely black-fruited and refined, with tar and liquorice notes around a coulis of blackcurrants. Velvety. Early days.  Now-2013

Product Code: MAB207

Brousses translates as bush, or brush; this is, literally the farm in the brush. Amidst the rolling scrub-covered hills around Puéchabon and the pebble-strewn terrasses near the Hérault river lie the domaine’s plots of vines. Géraldine Combes, whose family has inhabited Puéchabon, near Gignac, since 1525, juggles looking after three small boys with tending the vines. Husband Xavier Peyraud, grandson of the legendary Lucien Peyraud of Domaine Tempier, is the winemaker. Their first vintage was only 1997, and some of their grapes still go off to the local co-operative.