Winemaker Notes
Brilliant salmon pink color. Elegant fruity bouquet with an expressive nose. Delicate aromas of fruit and mango. A pure, clean tasting, harmonious wine. Well balanced with accompanying fruit aromas.
To be drunk chilled. Good with grilled red or white meats, Provencal specialties, fish dishes in sauce, veal blanquette, curry and dishes using saffron.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Offers a lovely combination of zip and richness, with creamy edges around a core of delicious white cherry and white peach flavors, all offset by a pure beam of minerality that pierces through from start to 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.
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.