Winemaker Notes
This wine is part of the LVE collection, produced in partnership with award-winning musician John Legend. It comprises 60% Grenache, 25% Cinsault, and 15% Syrah grown in the Montagne Sainte-Victoire region of Provence on stony, limestone-based soils.
The 2018 LVE Rosé is a brilliant, pale pink color. In the glass, it’s highly aromatic with delicate notes of peach blossom, raspberry, and apricot. On the palate, crisp light notes of fresh picked strawberry and white nectarine lead to an elegant, lengthy and a mineral finish.
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Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Fans of John Legend—I am one of those—should be excited that Mr. Legend, in collaboration with Boisset Collection, has turned in an excellent Côte de Provence. TASTING NOTES: This wine boasts authentic aromas and flavors of red fruit, savory spices, and mineral notes. Pair it with grilled prawns over red leaf lettuce and kale.
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.