Description

Fresh and fruit forward with the zip of piquepoul and weight of roussane, this is a new bottling from Turner-Pageot sure to fly by the glass.

The husband and wife team of Emmanuel Pageot and Karen Turner are the heart, the soul, the brains and the strong backs responsible for the wines of Domaine Turner Pageot. Karen, an Australian scientist turned winemaker, oversees cellar work. Emmanuel, a French sommelier turned farmer, tends the vines. They met while working at Domaine Hugel in Alsace and found a shared passion for discovering and building flavors in wine, and Turner-Pageot is the manifestation of their dream of owning vines and a winery in a part of the world that allows them the freedom to experiment, grow, and learn from each vintage and each block of soil.

From just 4.5 hectaires of grapes, or roughly 10 acres, Karen and Emmanuel produce seven or eight wines each year. The lineup is based more on potential they find in their tiny parcels than it is on any sort of a marketing plan, and for this, we love them. Across the board, the wines share a sense of balance and a layered and luxurious mouthfeel that is slow to reveal all of its component pieces. Equilibrium is a word both Karen and Emmanuel use regularly to describe both their vines and their wines.

Please see our video series with Emmanuel presented by Ask a Winemaker:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLddUmDhg4G_LQ4gG-QfR7c0ENnhrVQoJg