L'Anglore, Grenache/Cinsault/Clairette Rosé, Tavel, Southern Rhône, France 2022

50% Grenache, 30% Cinsault, 10% Clairette, 10% Bourboulenc, Carignan, Picpoul

Eric Pfifferling founded Domaine de l’Anglore in 2002 when he stopped selling his grapes to Tavel’s cave coopérative to vinify and bottle his own wine. Inspired by the burgeoning natural wine movement, Eric began farming his vineyards, inherited from his grandfather, organically and crafting wines without manipulation or additives save for minute doses of sulfur.

Once considered among France’s most prestigious appellations, one of the very first AOCs created in 1936 and famously lauded by Hemingway and several kings, Tavel had lost its luster since the advent of chemical farming and modern enological practices that transformed its wines in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Eric boldly pioneered a return to wines of more traditional character, bottling soulful vins de terroir radiating freshness and perfume.

Sons Thibault and Joris joined their father in 2015 and now run the domaine, with Eric always there to offer his wisdom. In the hands of the new generation, l’Anglore remains at the cutting edge of regenerative agriculture and low-intervention winemaking in pursuit of the most authentic, sustainable, and delicious expression of Tavel’s great terroirs.