Description

Eric Bouletin’s Roucas Toumba (which means the fallen rock in old Provençal dialect) is one of the top domaines in Vacqueyras.
Eric left the local cooperative to start vinifying himself in 2006 and has 16ha of superbly located old vines from which he keeps the best parcels for his own bottlings, selling the balance en vrac. The land has been handed down from generation to generation since the Bouletin family first settled here in 1580. Like the appellations of Cairanne and Rasteau the initial settlers bagged the hillside vineyards to plant their vines, and all the Roucas Toumba vineyards are on gentle hillside terraces (restanques in Provençal) as reflected by Eric’s top cuvée Les Restanques de Cabassole – in contrast 90% of the appellation is planted on a flat alluvial plain!