Wine of the Week

Domaine de la Bastide occupies the sort of compound and possesses the kind of history that make American Francophiles swoon. Built as a

fortified farmhouse by the Knights Templar in the 12th or 13th Century, it became, after the suppression of the Templars by Philip IV in 1307, first a Benedictine and then a Dominican monastery. Defrocked, as it were, du…