The Wines of This Week's Tasting:
Spring Rose Case
May 21, 2025
2024 Philippe Viallet Savoie Gamay Rose;
We found a delightfully light and pretty wine from Savoie in the mountains of eastern France. Viallet makes a rose from the gamay grape of Beaujolais which is a lighter, livelier and more lively flirtatious that the same from Beaujolais
Color: pretty lightly lavender hue; Aroma: savory, heady light and pretty, bright sweet fruit, ; Mouth: light pretty savory, pure clean fresh, good intensity, long; Very Good $15.99; Case, $13.99
Three from Provence, the classic model for dry rose
2024 Les Cardonnieres Coteaux D'Aix Provence Rosee
The vignerons in the town of Eguilles have been making this wine for a hundred years now. It is as fresh as when they forst made it \. Their blend of Syrah and Grenache hits all the right notes for for a Provencal Rose and drinks much better than its price.
Aroma: Delicate notes of peaches, nectarines, citrus blossom, and a hint of wild strawberries. Mouth: Crisp texture, refreshing acidity, delicate fruit flavors makes the wines versatile for food pairings and effortless sipping on its own.
Very Good $14.99, Case $12.99
2024 Bastide des Deux Lunes Rose Cotes de Provence
The is also very well=priced. It has a fuller quality from Mourvedre which gives it an darker hued flavor with the hint of an earthy note
; Aroma: very fresh intense, pretty, aromatic; Mouth: light and clean on the attack lighter bodied,with dark-hued flavors firm, tight and clean, fine tannins on a long finish; Very Good Plus $18.99; Case, $15.99
2024 Domaine Fouquette Cotes de Provence
Fouquette is always reliable, nicely structured while preserving a vivacious, forward fruit
Color: very pale tan; Aroma: heady rich, intense, fleshy and full, fat, orange peel, herbal; Mouth: clean light rounded fleshy full, juicy, with fine herbal note, , nice intensity, long; Very Good Plus $21.99; Case, $18.99
2023 Domaine Pelle Menetou Salon Rose
A pure Pinot Noir delight. Many customers already know Domaine Pelle in Menetou Salon, next to Sancerre. They make wines very much like their neighbor’s but without the price. Pelle’s rose is pure Pinot Noir with more breadth and weight than many from Sancerre. It's very satisfying
Aroma: richly fruited, deep fairly firm, expansive fruit Mouth: juicy fullish very intense broad fruit, mouth-filling with a nice mineral edge, juicy freshly fruity, pure pinot; Very Good Plus $23.99; Case, $20.49
2023 Red Tail Ridge Dry Rose
Who’d a thunk it - Mix France’s Cabernet Franc and Austria’s Zweigelt into a rose. The result is brilliant, as brilliant as is Red Tail’s winemaker-owner Nancy Irlan. We were struck by this wine when she visited us in February. It hits all the right notes; high and low, deep and broad.
; Color: light black, clean; Aroma: savory and full, with strawberry and herb notes incisive; Mouth: clean bright intense, fullish, light on the palate lively and long acid finish; Very Good Plus $23.99; Case, $20.49
2025 Federal Spring Rose Case $210, $17.50 a bottle
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