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Tandem 2023 | Domaine des Ouled Thaleb | Vinaris
  • Tandem 2023 | Domaine des Ouled Thaleb | Vinaris

Tandem 2023 | Domaine Des Ouled Thaleb | Alain Graillot & Jacques Poulain

19.89 €




Tandem 2023 | Domaine des Ouled Thaleb | Vinaris
Tandem 2023 | Domaine Des Ouled Thaleb | Alain Graillot & Jacques Poulain
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Tandem is the fruit of an unlikely partnership born in 2003, when Alain Graillot — the celebrated Syrah producer behind Domaine Graillot in Crozes-Hermitage — crossed paths with Jacques Poulain, the Bordeaux-trained winemaker who has overseen Domaine des Ouled Thaleb since 1997, on a cycling trip through Morocco. Founded in 1923 and the oldest active winery in the country, Domaine des Ouled Thaleb sits in Benslimane, around 50 kilometres northeast of Casablanca, where two distinct parcels supply the 100% Syrah: Rommani, with its black clay-limestone soils on gentle hills at roughly 600 metres altitude, and Aïn Brachoua, a lower-lying site of sandy schist and gravel open to Atlantic breezes; both are harvested by hand in August.

The grapes are destemmed and fermented in concrete vats with indigenous yeasts, followed by a deliberately short maceration of seven to eight days aimed at finesse over extraction, before ageing half in concrete and half in French oak barrels from cooperage François Frères, with no filtration or fining.

Tandem 2023 | Domaine des Ouled Thaleb

Este vino es el resultado de la colaboración entre Alain Graillot, referencia de la Syrah en Crozes-Hermitage, y el enólogo Jacques Poulain en el Domaine des Ouled Thaleb, la bodega más antigua en activo de Marruecos, fundada en 1923 en Benslimane, a 50 km al noreste de Casablanca. La colaboración surgió entre 2003 y 2005 tras un viaje en bicicleta, y Graillot visita la finca dos veces al año para las decisiones de vinificación.

La elaboración se centra en una uva 100% Syrah, cosechada manualmente en agosto. El origen se divide en dos parcelas: Rommani, con suelos de arcilla calcárea negra a 600 metros de altitud, y Aïn Brachoua, sobre esquistos arenosos y gravas expuestos a los vientos atlánticos. El proceso comienza con la uva despalillada, fermentando en cubas de hormigón con una maceración corta de 7 a 8 días para preservar la fineza tánica. La crianza combina hormigón y barricas de roble francés de la cooperería François Frères en partes iguales, finalizando sin filtración ni clarificación.

Este proyecto recibe la valoración de 17/20 de la Revue du Vin de France. Se trata de un vino tinto que refleja la búsqueda de equilibrio entre la potencia de la Syrah y la precisión de la elaboración.

Descripción generada por IA con conocimiento WSET. Solo orientativa.

Learn more about Domaine des Ouled Thaleb

This is Morocco's oldest working winery. It was founded in 1923 in Benslimane as a tribal co-operative project, and that is where the name comes from: the Ouled Thaleb are the tribe that owns the vineyard land, and whose members also work in the cellar.

It lies in the coastal Zenata appellation, between Casablanca and Rabat. The days are very hot, but the nearby Atlantic cools things down above all at night, which is what allows acidity to hold in a climate like this. The property is large —some two thousand hectares— though only part of it is wine grapes; the rest is mixed farming, all organic. The house led the revival of Moroccan wine in the 1990s.

The Rhône connection came by chance. Alain Graillot, a benchmark for Syrah in Crozes-Hermitage, came across the winery on a cycling trip through Morocco and was struck by the potential of this dry coast. That conversation produced the Syrocco project in 2005, and from the same collaboration —with the Bordeaux oenologist Jacques Poulain, based in Morocco since 1997— comes the Tandem we carry here. Graillot still visits twice a year.

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