Awards and Accolades

Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
"Rose from France’s Aude Valley. It’s made with 60% Cinsault, 30% Grenache, 10% Shiraz. Pale copper with a hint of crimson. Savouriness in the background but it’s essentially fruit driven. Raspberry, spice, a crunch of red apple. Texture and flavour are both on its side and...it drinks easily and well."

From the Winery

Completely whole bunch fermented with a short maceration (a few hours) sufficient to impart colour and texture. Following a soft pressing, the juice is given a cool fermentation in stainless steel and allowed to ferment to almost complete dryness. Maturation on lees in stainless steel adds texture and malo-lactic fermentation is prevented to ensure vibrancy.

A very warm and dry vintage with noticeably low yields exacerbated by frosts in early Spring. The conditions continued with just enough relief via light showers before a very early and compounded harvest that had vignerons scrambling, Whilst a famous vintage for red wines, 2016 was a well above average vintage for Rose with rich flavours and impressive concentration and length.

Fruit from the Gers region, in the centre of southern France provides a core of vibrant and expressive fruit with impressive depth whilst the high altitude, cool climate Aude Valley fruit provides lifted aromatics, savoury complexity and bright, fresh acidity.