Having visited Chateau Puech-Haut in Saint-Drézéry, and having tasted their wines, one of the wines I brought home is this pale pink rosé, a blend of grenache and cinsaut. The grapes are hand harvested, direct press and fermentation in tank.
Drank at around 8 to 10ºC, it’s very refreshing with an appealing fruity nose of strawberries, peach and lychee.
While I find it sometimes hard to define which fruits on the nose, in the end I have learned it’s really about my experience, or your experience. When I smell strawberries in a rosé, it is more than likely the rosé and I are going to be great friends.
Anyway, let’s get back to the Chateau Puech-Haut Prestige Rosé 2015. The vineyard, owned by Gerard Bru, is located close to Pic Saint-Loup and Montpellier in the South of France. Here the vines are benefiting from the Mediterranean climate, and the wines get their earthy and mineral character from the typical soil of this region, consisting of clay limestone, covered with pebbles.
It’s a superb rosé, well structured, fruity, soft; I can’t think of anything that would need improving. And doesn’t it look pretty in the sunset?
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