Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2025 Bandol Rosé is a powerfully aromatic, voluptuous wine with a broad stature. Everything about the 2025 resonates with pink grapefruit and white peach juiciness, settling in on the palate with attractive phenolic bitterness and a tug of fine tannin right on the close. Provençal herb tones linger especially long. Classic Bandol.
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Wine Spectator
Delivers classic Bandol weight, with impressive fruit purity and beautiful precision. Supported by a rock and mineral foundation, this is sturdy yet graceful, with juicy melon, white raspberry and clementine, all flecked with geranium, smoke, spices and dried herbs. Refreshing and clean, this is a true rosé for the dinner table.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
Provence’s leader in concentrated and age-worthy red wines, Bandol is home to the dense, deep and earthy Mourvèdre grape. Like Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Bandol produces characterful reds that, while approachable in their youth, are typically designed for the cellar.
Given its coastal, Provencal situation, Bandol also naturally produces an assortment of charming, aromatic rosés made of Mourvèdre, Grenache and Cinsault.