'The 2024 Bandol Rosé from Domaine Tempier is utter class.' BN
This is wine I consider a must-buy every year, but the 2024 is easily the best edition of Tempier Rosé in recent memory.
Billy Norris, vinous.com, May 2025
2024 Bandol Rosé, Domaine Tempier
£270 per 12 bottle case in bond
Domaine Tempier’s rosé is one of the greatest produced anywhere in the world. But don’t just take my word for it.
Robert Parker once commented ‘Always one of my favourite estates, Domaine Tempier's Bandol Rosé remains one of the world's reference points for how much flavor and character can be built into a rosé wine’. Jeb Dunnuck has added more recently that Tempier's is ‘Always one of the top 2/3 rosé produced anywhere’. While earlier this year, Billy Norris on vinous.com states 'Tempier Rosé shines in a league of its own' and Yohan Castaing of robertparker.com enthuses: 'one of France's most meticulously crafted and benchmark rosés.'
You should be getting the picture.....
No overly elaborate label, fluted bottle nor celebrity owner here. Just an exceptional wine in the bottle, a wine that has delivered great quality vintage after vintage, decade after decade. The rosé market is perhaps where wine and fashion combine most of all, and a lot of rosé are uninteresting, anodyne wines about which there is very little to say. It is very easy to pay quite a bit of money for an ordinary rosé – a depressing fact that most of us will acknowledge. It does not need to be that way.
A brief history of Tempier
In 1936, when Lucie ‘Lulu’ Tempier married Lucien Peyraud, her father gifted them a farm just outside Bandol. The vineyards of the estate had begun to be re-planted with grape varieties other than Mourvèdre on account of their reliability of yield, but having tasted venerable bottles of the estate’s great reds, Lucien championed Mourvèdre – he noted that it was well-suited to the area’s clay/limestone terroir. He worked with appellation authorities who decreed in 1941 that Mourvèdre legally needed to constitute 50% of any wine within the newly created appellation of Bandol AOC. After the new appellation was launched, a wholescale replanting of Mourvèdre took place in this now iconic Provençal region. The estate encompasses just over 50 hectares, and even with just over a quarter of this area devoted to rosé production, it stills disappears all too easily.
The 2024 Tempier Rosé is 55% Mourvedre, 25% Grenache and 20% Cinsault.
Glowing endorsements from vinous and robertparker.com below.
2024 Bandol Rosé, Domaine Tempier
£270 per 12 bottle case in bond
94 points, Billy Norris, vinous.com, May 2025
The 2024 Bandol Rosé from Domaine Tempier is utter class. Flaunting its trademark perfume of grapefruit peel, savory herbs, white flowers and sea spray, the Tempier Rosé shines in a league of its own. The mineral intensity and concentration through the mid-palate is really on another level in 2024. Supreme balance and textural finesse are the orders of the day. This is wine I consider a must-buy every year, but the 2024 is easily the best edition of Tempier Rosé in recent memory. Best of all, it will easily age for years. Drink 2025-2034
93 points, Yohan Castaing, robertparker.com, June 2025
The 2024 Bandol Rose from Domaine Tempier reveals an elegant, lively bouquet of pomegranate, grapefruit, ripe orchard fruits and guava subtly accented by delicate spicy notes. On the palate, it's bright and medium- to full-bodied, with bright acids and a juicy core of fruit that culminates in a saline, ethereal finish. As always, this is one of France's most meticulously crafted and benchmark rosés, combining precision, charm and age-worthy depth. Drink 2025-2035
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