This is ripe, boasting black cherry, boysenberry, leather and tar notes, plus a touch of milk chocolate. A dense matrix of broad, rough-hewn tannins backs this up, shutting down the finish at this stage.
It offers impressive richness with no hint of oak but expressive fruit flavors recalling ripe pear and honeydew melon. Its palate weight is energized by acidity that’s so pleasantly vibrant that it almost seems prickly.
Notes of pomegranate and rhubarb ride along with ripe strawberry notes to provide a substantial, lasting finish. Although definitely not sugary, there’s a ripe sweetness to the fruit notes that is cleverly offset by a touch of pleasant bitterness in the finish.
The 2024 rendition of this consistently fine rosé hits a winning balance between expressive fruit flavors and the sense of restraint that has made Provence the global standard for wines of this type…