Clos Bellane Cotes du Rhone Villages Valreas Rosé “diamant dans un verger” – 2023

Wow! This is a rosé like no other! Made from 100% old vine Grenache, it is a “gourmet” wine with serious weight, complexity and structure, which can be enjoyed as an apero or with quite rich poultry and fish dishes. Dry, with a delicious range of redcurrant, strawberry and raspberry fruit flavours, and even a hint of honeyed beeswax. Highly recommended if you like serious, top quality rosé wine.

This excellent biodynamic producer is situated between the villages of Valréas and Vinsobres in the far north of the Southern Rhone wine region. Their relatively high altitude vines (at around 400mts) grow on pure limestone soils and benefit from a steady, cooling breeze which blows down from the Alps nearby. These cool temperatures and limestone minerality, combined with copious quantities of Southern French sunshine, result in wines which have the freshness and elegance of the Northern Rhone together with the warmth, lavender and spice typical of the south.