La Voluta Tembo2023
Voluta
Languedoc, France
About this wine
Tembo is La Voluta's Grenache-Carignan red, the canonical Hautes Corbières pairing brought into Anna Rubio and Jean-Benoît Vivequain's strict natural-wine register. The pair farm 6.5 hectares organically in Cucugnan under the ruins of Quéribus Castle. Cellar protocol holds: hand harvest, whole-cluster fermentation, short maceration of 3 to 5 days, native yeasts only, no added sulphur at any stage. The house principle is that each cuvée is made only once and never repeated, so the Tembo bottling will not return in the same form. 13.5% alcohol; expect the southern-Languedoc weight that Grenache and Carignan naturally provide, lifted by Voluta's short-maceration cellar approach and the limestone substrate that defines the Hautes Corbières hills.
Winemaking
Hand harvest. Whole-cluster fermentation, short maceration of 3 to 5 days. Native-yeast fermentation only. No added sulphur at any stage. La Voluta's house principle: each cuvée made once, never repeated.