Domaine La Bouvaude
Côtes du Rhône - Côtes du Rhône Villages (Rhône Valley)

The Estate
Fabienne and Stephane Barnaud run this family estate of 4 generations with passion and respect for the environment. Domaine La Bouvaude is located in the village of Rousset-les-Vignes, between Nyons and Valreas in the Drome Provencale, within the Vallee du Rhone Meridionale. This village is a little paradise, overhanging the Rhone Valley, with a magnificent surrounding landscape of garrigue, vines, orchards and fields of lavender. Thanks to the varied terraced and sloped terroirs of shingles, limestone-clay and siliceous schist, Rousset-les-Vignes area provides perfect vine growing conditions and has belonged to the select Cotes du Rhone Villages Communaux Appellations d’Origines Controllees since 1969.

Rousset-les-Vignes

Stephane and Fabienne Barnaud

The Vineyard
The vineyard measures 37 acres, planted of 45 year-old vines on average (some of the vine plants are almost 100 years old). The soil is rocky, clayey and calcareous hillside, with schist depressions. The vineyard is totally hand harvested. The grape varieties are Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, Mourvèdre & Cinsault. 
Stephane Barnaud believes that the winemaking starts in the vineyards, trying to reach the best ripeness, then comes the vinification process to respectfully extract the true expression of the fruit.
The wine making is traditional with moderate de-stemming and use of stainless steel tank with temperature control where the grapes varieties and parcels are vinified separately. 
The wines produced at the Domaine have different vatting periods: a short period of time for the Cotes du Rhone Fruiandise to keep the fruit and the freshness, while a much longer time is used for the 100% Syrah Cuvee or the Cotes du Rhone Villages Rousset les Vignes, made from older vines, for each grape to achieve its potential and complexity.

Harvest at Domaine Bouvaude

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UPC code: 7 84585 00880 3
2005 Domaine de la Bouvaude, Côtes du Rhône Rouge, Fruiandise 12/750ml
80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 5% Cinsault, 5% Carignan. 20 year old vines on average.
Nice deep, brilliant velvet color. Round, ample and soft nose of ripe black fruits and spices. This is a very elegant and well balanced wine. The fresh, clean and juicy palate offers beautiful flavors of red and black fruits (predominantly blackberries and blackcurrants), with light touches of pepper. A very good length. A pure pleasure and an excellent value.

National Retail Price: $12.99 / bottle