Renamed in this 2020 vintage en hommage à Lulu & Lucien (Peyraud), this most important cuvée of Domaine Tempier blends the discrete strength of Bandol with the elegance and finesse which characterize the production of the domaine. This complexity is a result of different terroirs of the estate and the variety of its clay/limestone soils located around the estate but also in La Cadière, Sainte-Anne d'Évenos, and Ollioules: sandy marls, limestone greseux from santonien, rudist limestone and recent barely deep horizons of colluvions with various sun and wind exposures. Produce of about ¾ Mourvèdre with Grenache, Cinsault and a smaller proportion of Carignan and Syrah from vines an average age of 35 to 40 years. Clusters are hand‑selected in the vineyard and in the cellar, destemmed, crushed and put into concrete vats for 3 to 4 weeks to ferment on indigenous yeasts. The wine is then aged in large oak casks for a minimum of 18 months before bottling.

Deep ruby in color with wild, almost feral aromas upon opening, gamy, then with air a dark bramble and berry emerge, along with earth and stone (by all means do give this one a full throttle decanting) the wine seems to gain in body and heft with air; dark, brooding, potent and stony on the tongue, with visceral pulverized stone‑like tannins and eventually a heartiness and warming quality on the finish.