Winemaker Notes
This is a wine for food in a way that most rosés cannot hold up. It is a wine that can match grilled lamb, burgers, sausages off an open flame, the texture holding up to the char notes and through a winter cassoulet, roasted duck and hearty curry with fall vegetables. .
Blend: 70% Grenache Noir, 14% Carignan Noir, 8% Syrah, 8% Cinsault
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine is extra spicy both from the Grenache and the partial wood aging for a few months. It is textured, with a mineral edge that adds to the complexity. Drink from late 2019.
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Wine Spectator
Peach, melon and white raspberry notes are fresh and inviting in this elegant rosé, with wet stone, tangerine and spice details intermingling on the crisp finish. Grenache Noir, Carignan Noir, Syrah and Cinsault.
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.
Cotes de Provence is an extensive but valuable appellation that includes vineyards bordering the main Provencal appellations. Its sites vary from subalpine hills, which receive the cooling effects of the mountains to the north, to the coastal St-Tropez, a region mainly influenced by the warm Mediterranean sunshine.
Here the focus is on quality rosé, as it defines four fifths of the region’s wines. Following in the rosé footsteps, a lot of new effort is going into the region’s red production as well. A new generation has turned its focus on high quality Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault and Carignan. Cotes de Provence white wines, which represent a miniscule part of the region as far as volume, are nonetheless worthy of consideration and can include any combination of Clairette, Semillon, Ugni Blanc and Vermentino.