Château Barbebelle - Héritage Rosé 2021

The Wine

Inside the Bottle:
Petit nouveau, ce vin rosé se distingue par sa fraicheur, son fruité typique des Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence.
Son packaging original surfe sur une tendance hipster et tendance !

CEPAGES
Grenache 50 %, Cinsault 35 %, Syrah 15 %

ÉLABORATION
Haute Valeur Environnementale. Vendanges mécaniques. Tri et pressurage. Fermentation et élevage en cuve inox thermo-régulée.

DÉGUSTATION
OEIL : brillant, litchi
NEZ : gourmand, framboise, abricot
BOUCHE : pêche blanche, fraise des bois, bonbon arlequin

SERVICE Entre 7° et 9°

Like many great wines, this wine needs a ten minute warmup, but after that it starts to surround your nose with kisses of sweet red flowers, cranberries, red currants, pastry spices and fresh mission figs. The palate takes on the seriousness of this wine showing that it is not a mere Côtes du Rhône, but a wine finely-tuned with fresh acidity and polished but refreshing tannins.

Terroir: The combination of sandy-loam and limestone soils gives this wine tremendous lift and great structure without gifting it too much in body. Sand always seems to impart high and spirited aromas in wine. The aromatic and structured grapes, Grenache (55%) and Carignan (20%, one of my favorite underrated grapes) lead the charge, supported by Syrah (10%), Counoise (10%) and Mourvedre (5%).

All of Jean David's wines are vinified and raised in concrete tanks with a miminum of Sulfur added. He has been organically farming since 1979.