Château Grand Boise / Provence Sainte-Victoire

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A Fastidious Operation On All Levels – A Jewel Estate From An Exciting Part Of Provence

With our eye on this producer for some time, we are delighted to have finally been able to secure an allocation of these amazing wines. With first recorded history of winegrowing here in 1610, the 500 hectare property comprises 40 hectares of some 77 plots of organically grown vines (certified), over marble, limestone and red clay soils, between 300 – 600 metres altitude, making this estate the highest in Southern Provence. The diversity here of soil and aspect/altitude gives enormous scope for this estate to blend and craft complex and detailed wines, assisted by a state of the art winery replete with concrete egg fermenters.

Sainte-Victoire is a jaw-droppingly beautiful part of Provence and raises some of the region’s most distinctive wines due to its high limestone content in its soils, and the sun reflection from Mont Sainte Victoire. Grand Boise are a leading producer often used by the Provence Wine Council as a benchmark of this appellation’s style. Rosé production at this estate is 50%, bucking the region’s norm of 90%+ at many addresses.

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  • Grand Rose Felixir

    Grand Boise Sainte Victoire Rose 2023

     $ 50.00 incl. GST

    50% Grenache, 30% Syrah, 20% Cinsault

    Magical rosé, emblematic of the Sainte Victoire appellation.  There’s a delicacy typical to these wines, an almost umami quality running under the palate, around humming acidity and a slatey mineral feel.  There’s also a tropical fruit character at play, think guava skins, alongside watermelon, gooseberries, white pepper and grapefruit.  Distinctive, long, elegant and wonderfully complex.

    “Strawberry, white peach, guava, watermelon, a little white pepper and fennel, and it’s kind of stony too. Light and fresh, redcurrant, a saline and savoury element, gentle rosehip mouth-perfume, crisp acidity, with a flinty/stony texture, and a long dry finish. Very good.”

    93 points, Gary Walsh, Winefront

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  • Grand Boise Auro white 2023

     $ 56.00 incl. GST

    100% Grenache Noir, made as a blanc de noir, fermented and briefly aged in stainless steel. Vin de France.

    Pours almost water-white.  Apricots, oranges, honeydew melon, mango, oddly evokes Champagne, even a nod of brioche.  Underpinned with fine, cleansing mineral nodding to its limestone soil origins, with some orange rind bitterness.  Squeaky clean and different without being at all weird.

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  • Grand Boise Auro red 2023

     $ 56.00 incl. GST

    50% Grenache, 40% Cinsault and 10% Syrah, fermented in concrete eggs and aged in concrete tanks. Côtes de Provence.

    Aromas of purple flowers, lavender, garrigue (though far less than in typical Provence reds), olive tapenade.

    The palate has plenty of fruit presence – blackberry, black plums, black cherries, squeaky clean, with fine, ripe and fresh tannins giving just enough depth to balance an easy-drinking feel with something more serious.  Shares a similarly playful, mid-weight vibe with a Loire Cab Franc, contemplative or guzzlable depending on mood.

     

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  • Grand Boise Sainte Victoire Red 2017

     $ 65.00 incl. GST

    60% Syrah, 30% Grenache, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 12 months in large French oak and concrete egg.

    The typical experience of Provence red is loose knit tannins alongside a slightly rustic, saltbushy quality.  Not so here.  Sleek and well put together, this cuvee well showcases this estate’s high quality standing; this would be at home among any quality lineup of French red, whether from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, indeed oddly channelling these collective personalities.

    Well structured, it carries intense flavours of red berries, black cherries and blackcurrant, the small Cabernet component assertive.  A dusting of pepper to finish, it’s a wine of clear sophistication and refinement, power meets elegance.

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