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Villa Tempora, Pezenas, 2023

A superb organic, terroir-driven Languedoc red that manages to be full of ripe, authentic garrigue flavours whilst weighing in at just 12.5% abv. It blends Grenache (from schist soils) and Syrah (from clay-limestone) with whole-bunch 80-year-old bush-vine Carignan. Very pure with aromatic raspberry and plum fruit. Focused, mineral finish. 

"Agathe Dalisson, from Bordeaux, and Amaury Coste, from Burgundy, make exceptionally gentle wines from their estate in Pézenas. It's not easy to produce a Grenache, Syrah, Carignan blend that tastes of raspberries and ripples like a woodland brook, but they've done it. The tannins are fluid, just like that woodland brook, in flow over water-rounded pebble minerality. There is just enough scuff to keep things real, and there is just enough fallen-leaf earthiness and rustle to make me think of autumn. I get the impression that Dalisson and Coste listen to their vineyards rather than managing them. Or at least, this is what this wine seems to tell me, when I listen to it." 17/20, Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com, August 2025

Agathe Dalisson, from Bordeaux, and Amaury Coste, from Burgundy, met in Kabul whilst both were working in the humanitarian sector. Fast-forward a few years, married with children, they decided to settle in Pezenas, one of the Languedoc’s designated ‘Crus’. They farm just under 10ha of vines on volcanic soils surrounding the villages of Caux and Gabian and produce elegant, fresh wines with lift and balance. All the wines are organic and everything here is managed to ensure minimal impact to the environment.