Winemaker Notes
Labeled Cuvée Marina, Bargemone’s prestige bottlings are intense wines of exceptional complexity, balance and finesse. This crisp, bone dry rosé offers great freshness, with aromas of red fruit, exotic spice, and light floral notes.
Blend: 42% Cabernet-Sauvignon, 30% Syrah, 28% Counoise
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
More savory and structured than the regular rosé bottling, the 2020 Coteaux d'Aix en Provence Rose Cuvee Marina delivers scents of sea breeze, plus notes of crushed tomato leaves, black olives and redcurrants. It's medium-bodied and rather linear on the palate, offering refreshing length and a vibrant, citrusy finish.
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.
A fantastic source of dry rosés from the usual red Rhône varieties, Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence is a coastal, hilly region whose variations in elevations and microclimates make it ideal for viticulture. Red and a small amount of white wines, also made from Rhône grape varieties, are found here as well.