Winemaker Notes
Bright and minerally focused, displaying fresh orange, strawberry, and floral aromas in the glass. Energetic and precise on the palate, offering strawberry, blood orange, nectarine, and lavender notes.
Blend: 46% Cinsault, 27% Grenache, 11% Mourvedre, 9% Rolle, 7% Syrah
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 La Bernarde Les Hauts du Lac Côtes de Provence Rosé is a delicious and well-made wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits attractive aromas and flavors of red fruit, earth, and savory spices. Enjoy its authenticity with Dungeness crab in a mix of romaine and red leaf lettuces. (Tasted: June 8, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
A steely, fresh rosé with sliced peaches and hints of cherries. Some lemons, too. Medium body. Bright, vivid acidity at the end. White pepper, too.
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.