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2020 Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rose
£85.00 per 12 Bot, in bond
£134.14 Duty & VAT paid
70% Grenache, 20% Cinsault, 10% Syrah, from vineyards with clay limestone or pebbles and alluvial soils. Vines 25 years old. Macerated on the grape skins for a brief period before the wine is drawn off and undergoes a long temperature-controlled fermentation. The wine is rested in stainless-steel tanks before bottling. Vegan.
This has an attractively pale salmon colour from the short skin contact. The nose is bright and enticing, with apple blossom, white peach and raspberry. Exuberant and refreshing flavours of ripe strawberry, raspberry and Japanese gooseberry follow. Acidity is perfectly poised to provide tension and a subtle streak of minerality provides additional interest. There's impressive purity, subtlety and length for such a modestly priced rose. Ideally this is best served at 10-12 C.
Simon Quinn, VinQuinn
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