Wine Reviews

The 2021 Les Cassagnes de la Nerthe Cotes du Rhone Rose features bold flavors of strawberry and watermelon. It’s medium to full-bodied, with some real ripeness and roundness and an attractive touch of dried spices. Plump and expansive on the palate, it remains refreshing and long on the finish.

This bright-eyed, charming rosé offers layers of sun-kissed, juicy white peach, cherry and berry flavors cut by a stony, mineral undertone and just a hint of tea tannins. Penetrating in fruit and elegantly structured, it’s a consistently well-made, evergreen rosé that carries far beyond the spring and summer months

This has weight and depth for a rosé, with gently mulled strawberry, white raspberry and peach fruit flavors backed by a plump, wet stone-accented finish. Plenty of fun on its own, but with the substance for food, too. Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah.

This blend of 40% Grenache, 30% Cinsault, and 30% Mourvèdre is among the darling of southern France’s rosés. Lively aromas of strawberry lead to a generous fruit salad of flavors: watermelon, peach, and papaya. Steely undertones of wet river rock keep the palate lean.

Shimmering orange. Red currant, raspberry and rhubarb pick up a smoky mineral overtone as the wine opens up. Concentrated red fruit, blood orange and lavender pastille flavors show good clarity, minerally lift and a touch of spiciness. Rich yet lively in character, delivering solid closing thrust, repeating florality and no rough edges.