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The Rosé Wines of Provence: The colour might be pale, but these wines have depth
There is a feeling associated with the Vins de Provence wine region and nothing else seems to sum it up better than the expression, “joie-de-vivre”. It’s the relaxed glamour of a white shirt billowing in the breeze, lazily buttoned in two places down the front. It’s an elbow propped on a table with a hand hanging in the air like an unfinished sentence. Blow-dried hair pushed off the face with huge, round sunglasses and a long, contented sigh.
The Best Rosés to buy this Summer
Want to know what the best rosés are to buy THIS summer? Read on so that you can celebrate Rosé Season in style!
Wednesday Wine Women: @drink.folc
Elisha co-founded folc in 2020 with her partner Tom, with the ambition to create a high quality English rosé with a modern mindset. She knew that their customers wanted transparency, sustainability and inclusiveness at the heart of the wine they are buying and that's exactly how folc produces their English wine.
Wednesday Wine Women: @masdeladame
Anne Poniatowski and Caroline Missoffe, two sisters, decided in 1995 to leave Paris and come back to the family vineyard, becoming the 4th generation at Mas de la Dame.
Kylie Minogue 2020 Côtes du Provence Rosé
Celeb wines do bring something valuable to the wine trade – and that’s their fans. An excited, engaged, bustling marketplace is good for everybody and these wines will be the catalyst for opening up the world of wine for many consumers. Kylie has one of the most popular wine ranges at Morrisons, where her 2020 Côtes de Provence rosé will be stocked exclusively.
A Tour of Provence with Château Léoube
It was in the summer of 1997 when the Bamfords (from the Cotswolds in England) first set eyes on Château Léoube in Provence. If its scenic beauty is anything to go by, it must have been love at first sight. The image of rusty orange earth, blanketed by lush vegetation, meeting the expanse of blue ocean calms me, even from the page I’m looking at. I am reminded of the utopian Tracy Island from Thunderbirds, as I study the crowd of umbrella pines on the peninsula, seeing how they lean over the edge, peering curiously into the sea. I’m sure if that was the view before my eyes, my heart would have skipped a beat too.
Rosé food pairings with Vins de Provence
As soon as the sun makes an appearance in London, the rosé corks seem to pop by themselves. Any city rooftop swarms with relaxed, smiling faces, aglow with rosy reflections from the pink nectar sloshing around in their wine glasses. Not just any pink, mind, a specific pink; a very pale pink, as if the black grape skins involved just shot the juice a flirty wink, in true sexy Saint-Tropez style. Ahh, Provence rosé gets us in all the mood, doesn’t it?