Winemaker Notes
Saint Roch Les Vignes Cotes de Provence Rose is a true pleasure wine notes of peach and candied orange. Fresh, fruity, and decidedly gourmet mouth.
Pair this wine with Asian cuisine or as an aperitif alongside vegetable tempura.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Saint Roch Côtes de Provence offers excellent persistence and roundness on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine brings lovely aromas and flavors of candied fruit, sage, and earth to the fore. Enjoy it with a classic banh mi and a garden-fresh salad. (Tasted: January 26, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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.