Winemaker Notes
Very fresh aromas of red berries, tropical fruits, and nectarine. On the palate, it presents a slightly mineral taste with notes of white fruit and hints of exotic fruit, like lychee and guava.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Do you know that saying, I went looking for a glass of delicious rosé wine and did not find what I wanted!" Fortunately, when I hunted down the 2018 Château Bertrands Élégance to taste, I discovered one of the most beautiful and delicious rosés that have crossed my path this year. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright, nicely-textured, and crisp. Its alluring aromas and flavors of vibrant red fruits should pair deliciously with grilled lamb sausages wrapped in a Pita bread. (Tasted: March 14, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine & Spirits
This wine’s satiny texture holds more raspberry flavor than you might think possible from a rosé. Mostly cinsault and grenache, plus 20 percent syrah, it’s full bodied and long, a 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.
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.