Rose wine a Cote d’Azur specialty is so a la mode in the UK at the moment and I can understand why.
For many years I have enjoyed a cool glass of rose (pronounced “rosay”) with a meal in the Cote d’Azur in France and have often wondered why its popularity failed to transmit from the south of France to elsewhere.
I had put it down to the climate and imagined that because it does taste so good when you are in a lovely warm climate, sat on a terrace overlooking the sea or a beautiful Mediterranean garden that maybe it just didn’t come across the same to people in the UK.
Over Christmas I had friends visit the lovely village of Grassington in Yorkshire where the VWW office is based and I new that they only really liked to drink rose, so I was a bit concerned when visiting the local pub that they would be disappointed. Not a bit of it, all the pubs in the village and the restaurants we frequented all served up excellent Rose. Surprisingly it tastes just as good on a wet windy day in a Yorkshire village pub as it does on the French Riviera, well nearly.
It would seem that the marketing bigwigs have been giving rose a push and with some success. They have reversed the perception of rose as a rather cheap plonk which left you with a head ache. The growers have obviously played a part as rose wine has definitely improved in recent years, nowadays you rarely come across a bad bottle in the south of France.
The rose wines in the Cote d’Azur, where the tendency is towards a crisp dry wine with a light fruity flavor, are widely available, very cheaply in supermarkets in the Riviera and on the wine growing domains and chateaux. There are some excellent vineyards around Saint Tropez, Bandol and towards Draguignan where you can taste before you buy.
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