Winemaker Notes
The 2019 Domaine de la Mordoree Cotes Du Rhone Rose exude very fruity (citrus fruits, strawberry, cherry) and flowery aromas. The palate is fresh and well-balanced.
Pair this wine alongside cold meats, fowl, white meats, grilled lamb with Provence herbs, fish soup, fried fish, pastas, pizzas and Asian dishes.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Cotes Du Rhone La Dame Rousse Rose offers another level of elegance and purity as well as complexity. Giving up notions of ripe strawberries, cherry blossoms, white flowers, and a kiss of minerality, it’s a beautifully textured, medium to full-bodied, incredibly balanced effort that actually has a touch more richness than the Tavel, although both are rich, textured rosés geared for the table. As with the Tavel, drink this beauty any time over the coming year or so.
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Wine Enthusiast
This intensely plummy, black-fruited rosé offers a fantastic, well-priced alternative to this producer's increasingly expensive flagship Tavel. A full-bodied, voluminous blend of Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault, it's luminous and concentrated but freshly balanced by strikes of cut stone and salt.
Editor's Choice
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.
Typically thought of as a baby Chateâuneuf-du-Pape, the term Côtes du Rhône actually doesn’t merely apply to the flatter outskirts of the major southern Rhône appellations, it also includes the fringes of well-respected northern Rhône appellations. White wines can be produced under the appellation name, but very little is actually made.
The region offers some of the best values in France and even some first-rate and age-worthy reds. Red wine varieties include most of the Chateâuneuf-du-Pape varieties like Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Cinsault, and Counoise, as well as Carignan. White grapes grown include Grenache blanc, Roussanne and Viognier, among others.