VINTAGE: Non-vintage: (Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon (2012) is carefully matured in third fill French oak barrels for twelve months. The Malbec is fermented without skin contact and aged in Stainless steel tanks to retain the primary fruit aromas and freshness of the wine.
TASTING NOTES:
Imagine the sensual pleasure of fresh, ripe, red strawberries combined with rose petals, marshmallows and the mystical aroma of cinnamon. The gentle tannins and delicate balance of acidity gives this wine its unique character of being fresh, youthful and light. The flavours are playful and mischievous in the mouth with a lingering, lazy aftertaste.

MATURATION/PROCESS:
Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon is carefully matured in third fill French oak barrels for twelve months. The Malbec is fermented and aged in Stainless steel tanks to retain the primary fruit aromas and freshness of the wine.
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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.

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