Juliette la Sangliere Rose 2020
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Juliette is a delicious and crisp rose wine that has an initial fruit-forward taste of raspberries and berries that give the wine an attractive open feel. Juliette is refreshing and elegant, bone dry rosé wine, with layers of lively fruit and a bright, smooth finish – just the way a true rosé wine from Southern France should be.
While Juliette serves an excellent standalone aperitif wine, Juliette is also an exceptional food wine that pairs with so many different types of cuisines. Juliette is a perfect pair for grilled fish, seafood, steamed fish, lobster, shellfish, bouillabaisse, and other traditional Provençal cuisines.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 La Sanglière Juliette Rosé is light, steady, and attractive. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers pleasing aromas and flavors of dried earth, spice, and red cherries. Serve it with a plate of sashimi. (Tasted: May 16, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
Juliette la Sangliere, in Provence is located on 42 hectares of nationally protected land. The winery is 30-km from Saint Tropez and halfway between Marseille and Nice, the proximity to the sea creates an ideal microclimate to cultivate the grape varietals used to produce Juliette Rosé.
Remy Devictor, head winemaker at Juliette la Sangliere, grew up in the heart of Provence in the beautiful, ancient village of Sault, where his grandfather and father were working as agricultural engineers in the lavender industry. At the age of 13, Remy was introduced to the wine world when his father purchased land in the National Park on the Mediterranean coastline and set up the winery Juliette la Sangliere. In 1990, after graduating from the Enology College in Toulon, Remy joined the family business at Sanglière, performing different roles, such as viticulture and winemaking, as well as developing the broader range of estate wines. Eventually, Remy inherited the role of Head Winemaker and expanded the Sanglière portfolio to include some of the most prestigious wines in the Provence region.
Remy is committed to passing the farming and production practices, as well as values instilled by his father, into the hands of the third generation of passionate Sanglière winemakers, his son, Pierre Devictor.
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