Tasting Notes
The Provenance Seismic Rooi has a dark colour with flavours of cassis, red berry and integrated oak. The tannin is firm and well balanced with a full-bodied, elegant finish.

Blend Information
37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Petit Verdot, 19% Merlot,14% Cabernet Franc, 11% Malbec

In The Vineyard
Age: Average 13 years
Soil: A variety of structured red soils, partially weathered shale soils and clay-loam soils with a high percentage of coarse gravel.

The grapes were handpicked in the early morning.

In The Cellar

 AOP Cahors, gemeente Vire Sur Lot.
16 hectare. Gemiddelde leeftijd van de wijnstokken: 40 jaar.
De initialen : F voor Fabienne & R voor Rigal, Fabienne Rigal, The Vigneronne, Made In France.
biologische conversie in uitvoering, hier is een wijnmaker die wijn weet te maken!
PROEFNOTITIES

DE NEUS: Tonen van rood fruit en kersen.
IN DE MOND: Een harmonieus mondgevoel met gesmolten tannines. Ronde, vette wijn, die goed in de mond blijft.

 92/100 : Tim Atkin

The Proprietors blend is once again impressive and serious in 2016.
Medium to full-bodied, it is strewn with black fruits, exotic spice and chards of dark chocolate. Sweet spicy oak melts into a dense, powerfully-fruited and structured core. The majority Cabernet Sauvignon gives a cassis purity and salty edge, while the Shiraz component adds a meaty, savoury and spicy edge.
The blend is rounded off by the remaining Bordeaux cultivars in a complexity explosion from start to finish. It is exquisitely textured and finely tuned, the 2016 will open up over the next 5 years and age for a decade or more.
5 sterren in de Platter's Guide = maximum