This is not an estate wine like Château Minuty but rather a negociant wine, yet the blend is the same and the quality is close—probably closer than the $10 price difference. Faintly floral scents are very appealing, and the flavors show the restraint that made Provence rosés famous yet are very pure and surprisingly persistent in light of how “soft spoken” the wine is in overall profile.
A strong competitor in the category of high-end Rosé wines from Provence, this delivers flavors that are delicious and lasting but also restrained and classy. That’s precisely the formula that can inspire consumers to trade up to this price level. A classic blend of 70% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 10% Rolle, and 5% Cinsault yields aromas of fresh blossoms and stone fruit flavors that gain complexity from underlying saline minerality.
A brilliant entry of plum blossom, and boysenberry, brimming with brown-sugared cedar. Cocoa dust and the sultry tone of new leather forms around supple, yet chewy tannins. Well built from start to finish.
This fog-influenced white shines with vanilla-laced lime chiffon. Strokes of sandalwood painted with white chocolate and toasted coconut reveal a balanced acidity with butter top notes and lemon rind bottom notes.
As pretty and polished as its pale orange-pink color, this co-fermented estate-grown blend of 65% Pinot Noir and 35% Chardonnay paints a rosy aromatic picture of apple brioche, cantaloupe, and apricot that extends to the lilting, silky palate, where young strawberry and a squeeze of lime and blood orange are subtly contoured by rose petal and crushed rock.
Produced from grapes grown in the Southern Judean Hills, near the Negev Desert, it includes 10% Petite Sirah and 5% Syrah, aged eight months in small oak barrels. Precious notes of black cherry, red beets, and red tea combine for a mouth-watering opulence. It offers a fine line of acidity and minerality, with an elegant, floral finish of hibiscus and dried roses.
Remarkable freshness and agility imbue this extra-brut blanc de blancs from Premiers and Grands Crus. Dried peach and apricot, smoke, baking spice, toasted macadamia nut, and faint honeysuckle converge on the complex nose with the lemon confit that continues onto the palate in chalk-dusted undulations of citrus, lightly dappled with makrut lime leaf and underripe pineapple. The acidity’s plenty energetic, yet the overall effect, thanks to the wine’s chiffon texture, is one of marvelous poise.
Forty-year-old Wente clones planted on rolling hillsides of Goldridge soil, limestone, and volcanic ash offers up a sleek white with mineral tones. Lemon blossom exudes a floral elegance, while mango and gardenia take on a more tropical voice. Crisp and so clean.