Maison Tardieu-Laurent
About Maison Tardieu-Laurent
Established as recently as 1994, Maison Tardieu-Laurent was the brainchild of an ambitious winemaker and a pastry chef! A relatively young vinous enterprise compared to many of its illustrious Northern Rhône rivals, the formidable négociant produces tremendous wines from several appellations.
A pure négociant, Tardieu-Laurent neither owns vineyards nor buys in grapes. Instead, this house sends out specific oak barrels, with certain wood and toasting levels, to the most rigorous and trusted growers in the Northern Rhône. Sending back freshly pressed and newly vinified juice, the négociant then ages and blends the wines in their facility before bottling.
Very much an artisan producer, Tardieu-Laurent craft a mere six to 20 barrels-worth of each of their wines, meaning supply is lower than global demand. Aged entirely in small oak casks once blended, their wines are bottled with no fining nor filtration. Having gone their separate ways a few years ago now, Michel Tardieu is now in full control. He is a self-proclaimed “terroirist”, focusing unrelentingly on powerful expressions of his chosen fruit and sense of place.
Viniculture
The sublime Hermitage Blanc is sourced from vines planted in the Beaumes, Murets and Pierrelles lieux-dits of the appellation. The terroir in these sites is predominantly clay with ancient granite bedrock. Their Hermitage Rouge is similarly sourced from Pierrelles but also Roumeas. The same soil composition is found on these steep, rocky hillside sites. The gorgeous Côte-Rôtie has a varied origin of the lieux-dits of Moulin, Chavaroche, Landonne and Rozier.

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Provence | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£223.78 |
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Rhone | 2 | 91-93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£498.07 |
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Vinous - Josh Raynolds (91-93)Ruby-red. Explosively perfumed bouquet of spicy red berries and cherry, with suave minerality. Vibrant red fruit flavors are finely etched and gain sweetness with air, finishing with great sappy persistence. This boasts impressive balance. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-95 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£299.38 |
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Vinous (93-95)(sourced from vines more than 100 years old in La Crau and made entirely with whole clusters) Lurid ruby. Deeply perfumed cherry, raspberry, licorice and Asian spice aromas open up with air and pick up suggestions of candied flowers and smoky minerals. Palate-staining red berry and bitter cherry flavors are lifted and given focus by a core of smoky minerality. Concentrated and seamless in texture, delivering outstanding closing thrust, supple tannins and lingering florality. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£582.58 |
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Vinous (93-94)Deep bright-rimmed violet. Deep-pitched red berry preserve, candied licorice and exotic spice aromas are lifted by a smoky mineral note that gains strength as the wine opens up. Broad and fleshy in the mouth, offering bitter cherry, black raspberry and fruitcake flavors and a touch of spicy white pepper. In a distinctly ample style but not at all lacking for energy. The impressively long, gently tannic finish shows no rough edges and leaves a sappy cherry liqueur note behind. |
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Rhone | 1 | 91-93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£439.78 |
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Vinous (91-93)Inky purple. Highly aromatic, displaying scents of candied dark berries, olive tapenade and violets, with a vanilla accent in the background. Fleshy and expansive in the mouth, offering sweet blackberry and cherry-cola flavors and a lashing of cracked pepper. Dusty tannins come on late and fold themselves into the wine's juicy fruit on the finish. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93+ (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£674.69 |
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Vinous (93+)Medium ruby. Great nose combines gunflint, bacon fat, roasted tomato, violet, mocha, brown spices and pepper. Extremely firm today and a bit dominated by its tannic structure and brisk acids, but this primary, palate-staining wine offers great sappy verve and peppery persistence. Hasn't yet opened on the back end, but should be spectacular with seven or eight years of bottle aging. The alcohol is a full 13%, but there's no sign of overripeness. |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£662.98 |
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Vinous (92-94)(all serine, from Chavaroche, La Landonne, Cote Rozier and Les Rochains; 100% new oak): Deep ruby. Potent scents of musky cherry pit, blueberry, licorice and bitter chocolate. Densely packed and appealingly sweet, offering smoky black and blue fruit, mineral and floral pastille flavors complicated by olive and cracked pepper. Finishes very long and spicy, with dusty tannins coming on late. The vines that provided fruit for this wine are all over 60 year old. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£636.58 |
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Vinous (93)Opaque ruby. Seductive, mineral-accented aromas of blueberry preserves, cherry cola, violet and olive paste and a smoky mineral topnote. Dark berry liqueur flavors provide excellent energy, breadth and depth, displaying a subtle vanilla accent and building spiciness. Plays richness off vivacity with a sure hand and shows no excess weight. Finishes with impressively persistent black and blue fruit notes, velvety tannins and strong, spicy persistence. |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£721.78 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£644.98 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£688.18 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£414.58 |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£598.18 |
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Vinous (94)Bright yellow-gold. A highly complex bouquet evokes ripe orchard and pit fruits, saffron and pungent flowers, and a potent suggestion of smoky minerals emerges with air. Sappy and densely packed on the palate, offering intense poached pear, dried peach, honey and sweet butter flavors that deepen and spread out steadily on the back half. Powerful and deeply concentrated yet surprisingly graceful, finishing very long and chewy, delivering outstanding energy and persistent floral and mineral notes. |
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Rhone | 2 | - |
Inc. VAT
£203.09 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£346.18 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£598.18 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£571.78 |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£564.07 |
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Vinous (92-94)Inky ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes candied black and blue fruits, smoked bacon and violet. Pliant, appealingly sweet dark fruit flavors are sharpened by zesty acidity and become spicier with air. Bright, focused and pure, with excellent back-end power and smooth, well-knit tannins adding shape and grip to the sweet finish. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£636.58 |
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Vinous (94)Inky ruby. Sexy, highly perfumed blackberry, cherry liqueur and boysenberry aromas are complemented by suggestions of licorice and candied violet, and a subtle olive nuance emerges with air. Shows excellent depth as well as energy on the palate, offering appealingly sweet cherry and dark berry preserve flavors and a suggestion of spicecake. Supple, emphatically floral and seamless in texture, closing with powerful thrust and smooth, harmonious tannins. |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£636.58 |
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Vinous (92-94)Vivid purple. High-pitched aromas of fresh black and blue fruits, potpourri and smoky minerals, along with an exotic hint of apricot. Sappy and seamless on the palate, offering juicy blueberry and violet pastille flavors that tighten up and become spicier with aeration. Fine-grained tannins build steadily on the finish, which lingers with excellent tenacity and resonating florality. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-95 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£687.67 |
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Vinous (93-95)Bright purple. A highly perfumed nose displays an array of ripe black and blue fruit, Indian spice and floral aromas enlivened by a smoky mineral quality. Sappy and deeply concentrated, offering sweet cassis and blueberry flavors and a suggestion of candied violet. The mineral and floral components drive an extremely long, incisive finish that's given shape by smooth, slow-building tannins. |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
Inc. VAT
£688.18 |
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Provence | 1 | - |
In Bond
£148.00 |
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Rhone | 2 | 91-93 (VN) |
In Bond
£383.00 |
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Vinous - Josh Raynolds (91-93)Ruby-red. Explosively perfumed bouquet of spicy red berries and cherry, with suave minerality. Vibrant red fruit flavors are finely etched and gain sweetness with air, finishing with great sappy persistence. This boasts impressive balance. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-95 (VN) |
In Bond
£211.00 |
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Vinous (93-95)(sourced from vines more than 100 years old in La Crau and made entirely with whole clusters) Lurid ruby. Deeply perfumed cherry, raspberry, licorice and Asian spice aromas open up with air and pick up suggestions of candied flowers and smoky minerals. Palate-staining red berry and bitter cherry flavors are lifted and given focus by a core of smoky minerality. Concentrated and seamless in texture, delivering outstanding closing thrust, supple tannins and lingering florality. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-94 (VN) |
In Bond
£447.00 |
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Vinous (93-94)Deep bright-rimmed violet. Deep-pitched red berry preserve, candied licorice and exotic spice aromas are lifted by a smoky mineral note that gains strength as the wine opens up. Broad and fleshy in the mouth, offering bitter cherry, black raspberry and fruitcake flavors and a touch of spicy white pepper. In a distinctly ample style but not at all lacking for energy. The impressively long, gently tannic finish shows no rough edges and leaves a sappy cherry liqueur note behind. |
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Rhone | 1 | 91-93 (VN) |
In Bond
£328.00 |
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Vinous (91-93)Inky purple. Highly aromatic, displaying scents of candied dark berries, olive tapenade and violets, with a vanilla accent in the background. Fleshy and expansive in the mouth, offering sweet blackberry and cherry-cola flavors and a lashing of cracked pepper. Dusty tannins come on late and fold themselves into the wine's juicy fruit on the finish. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93+ (VN) |
In Bond
£543.00 |
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Vinous (93+)Medium ruby. Great nose combines gunflint, bacon fat, roasted tomato, violet, mocha, brown spices and pepper. Extremely firm today and a bit dominated by its tannic structure and brisk acids, but this primary, palate-staining wine offers great sappy verve and peppery persistence. Hasn't yet opened on the back end, but should be spectacular with seven or eight years of bottle aging. The alcohol is a full 13%, but there's no sign of overripeness. |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
In Bond
£514.00 |
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Vinous (92-94)(all serine, from Chavaroche, La Landonne, Cote Rozier and Les Rochains; 100% new oak): Deep ruby. Potent scents of musky cherry pit, blueberry, licorice and bitter chocolate. Densely packed and appealingly sweet, offering smoky black and blue fruit, mineral and floral pastille flavors complicated by olive and cracked pepper. Finishes very long and spicy, with dusty tannins coming on late. The vines that provided fruit for this wine are all over 60 year old. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93 (VN) |
In Bond
£492.00 |
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Vinous (93)Opaque ruby. Seductive, mineral-accented aromas of blueberry preserves, cherry cola, violet and olive paste and a smoky mineral topnote. Dark berry liqueur flavors provide excellent energy, breadth and depth, displaying a subtle vanilla accent and building spiciness. Plays richness off vivacity with a sure hand and shows no excess weight. Finishes with impressively persistent black and blue fruit notes, velvety tannins and strong, spicy persistence. |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£563.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£499.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£535.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£307.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
£460.00 |
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Vinous (94)Bright yellow-gold. A highly complex bouquet evokes ripe orchard and pit fruits, saffron and pungent flowers, and a potent suggestion of smoky minerals emerges with air. Sappy and densely packed on the palate, offering intense poached pear, dried peach, honey and sweet butter flavors that deepen and spread out steadily on the back half. Powerful and deeply concentrated yet surprisingly graceful, finishing very long and chewy, delivering outstanding energy and persistent floral and mineral notes. |
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Rhone | 2 | - |
In Bond
£150.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£250.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£460.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£438.00 |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
In Bond
£438.00 |
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Vinous (92-94)Inky ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes candied black and blue fruits, smoked bacon and violet. Pliant, appealingly sweet dark fruit flavors are sharpened by zesty acidity and become spicier with air. Bright, focused and pure, with excellent back-end power and smooth, well-knit tannins adding shape and grip to the sweet finish. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
£492.00 |
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Vinous (94)Inky ruby. Sexy, highly perfumed blackberry, cherry liqueur and boysenberry aromas are complemented by suggestions of licorice and candied violet, and a subtle olive nuance emerges with air. Shows excellent depth as well as energy on the palate, offering appealingly sweet cherry and dark berry preserve flavors and a suggestion of spicecake. Supple, emphatically floral and seamless in texture, closing with powerful thrust and smooth, harmonious tannins. |
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Rhone | 1 | 92-94 (VN) |
In Bond
£492.00 |
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Vinous (92-94)Vivid purple. High-pitched aromas of fresh black and blue fruits, potpourri and smoky minerals, along with an exotic hint of apricot. Sappy and seamless on the palate, offering juicy blueberry and violet pastille flavors that tighten up and become spicier with aeration. Fine-grained tannins build steadily on the finish, which lingers with excellent tenacity and resonating florality. |
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Rhone | 1 | 93-95 (VN) |
In Bond
£541.00 |
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Vinous (93-95)Bright purple. A highly perfumed nose displays an array of ripe black and blue fruit, Indian spice and floral aromas enlivened by a smoky mineral quality. Sappy and deeply concentrated, offering sweet cassis and blueberry flavors and a suggestion of candied violet. The mineral and floral components drive an extremely long, incisive finish that's given shape by smooth, slow-building tannins. |
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Rhone | 1 | - |
In Bond
£535.00 |
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