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Maupertuis Pink Bulles 2021
Bulles as a rule. A wine we look forward to every year, Pink Bulles is heavenly sparkling Gamay from the Auvergne; that outlying, most southerly reach of the Loire valley where the river rises and the soils are a mixed patchwork of granite, sand and...
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Mikaël Bouges La Bulle 2021
A blend of direct pressed Côt and Gamay from vines over gravelly limestone, this is Mikaël's rosé pet nat. A little rounder than previous years, still with the crunchy red apple and raspberry fruits but with a richer level of ripeness...
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Séléné Rosé 2021
Now farming 7 hectares of their own, this Rosé is from a newer parcel that finished organic conversion in 2021. A direct-pressed Gamay grown on granite over sandy clay, bright and fresh with great acidity. The tropical island sunset on the label...
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Du Grappin Rosé du Grappin NV (1.5ltr Bagnum)
Delicious, easy-going rosé of Rhône Cinsault that is packed with generous red fruits. Really juicy, with some nice fresh acidity keeping it all in check. Perfect for taking out in an al fresco situation, or equally at home in the fridge,...
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Celler Tuets Tot Rosat 2020
Just delicious - one of those all-in wines that blends a little bit of everything from all of Albert's different plots. A one-day maceration makes the wine a dark pink in the glass and aromas are open, spicy and vegetal. The red berry fruits have...
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Le Coste Rosato 2020
Le Coste's famously peerless rosato. Aleatico from a fifty year old vineyard, planted some five hundred metres above sea level. The grapes were pressed directly to vats for fermentation, before ten months of élevage in old barrels. A hazy shade of...
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Axel Prüfer - Le Temps des Cerises 'La Capitulation Ne Paie Pas!' 2020
A wine that began its life as his ‘Brutal’ cuvée years ago. This is the first picking of Cinsault which was macerated for just a couple of days in whole bunches within the press. Although a little darker than previous vintages,...
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Ca de Noci Tre Dame 2020
A rosato of 100% Sgavetta, with the most delicate spritz of pinprick bubbles. This style provides a wine with a much more approachable, lower-tannin character to the Masini brother's formidable Lambrusco. Here the fruit is more airy and light, with a...
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Domaine Bohn Le Coup de Jus 2020
One of the less typical, more experimental cuvées spearheaded by Bernard's son Arthur who is a fan of trying out new approaches and techniques. Less of a terroir-driven wine, this is an experiment in immediate pleasure that borrows the infusion...
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Vini Rabasco Cancelli Rosato 2020
The Rosato Cancelli is direct-press Montepulciano from the Cancelli vineyard site, a bowl that starts at the base of the La Salita slalom run and jumps a small road to climb the gentler adjacent slope. This wine is part of a serious Abruzzo...
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Sassi Rosato 2020
Sassi is a great new label for some seriously good value wine from Abruzzo, Italy, made by bringing together the grapes from seven different producers dotted around the region, all of whom are working organically and biodynamically in their vineyards,...
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Tanca Nica Firri Firri 2019
Firri Firri is a traditional hoe used in the vineyards, and also the nickname of the old vignaiolo who previously owned the land. 50 year-old bush vines on volcanic sand, a cool northeast exposed plot at 300m altitude, the vines were harvested at the end...
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Tom Shobbrook Poolside 2020 MAGNUM
Shobbrook is back! Tom's light red/rosé of Syrah is so laid-back it's horizontal - Poolside is where you'll want to be (or imagine you are) when you crack the cap on this one. The fruit comes from vines roughly 40 years old, giving some great...
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La Vrille et le Papillon Les Fees Papillon 2020
Generous rosé of Syrah with ripe strawberry fruits upfront, a gentle waft of wild herbs and some savoury structure beneath. A short maceration on the skins bleeds in a flash of colour and adds substance. A pleasingly versatile wine, with lots to...
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Ameztoi Txakoli de Getaria Rosado 2020
An absolute essential for warmer months - Txakoli is the native wine of the Basque region of Spain and is in that lean, bone dry, spritzy style that is reminiscent of the more ubiquitous Portuguese Vinho Verde - here we have the pink rosado version...
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Ombretta Agricola Pedecastello 2018
Pinot Nero from young vines planted some six hundred metres above sea level at the foot of the Dolomites. The fruit macerated on the skins, before being pressed off to tank to rest until the following spring when it was put into bottle with a combination...
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Eugenio Rosi Riflesso Rosi 2019
Always a wine of substance, and much darker in colour than many would classify as a rosé, the gentle maceration has allowed the wine to develop beautifully. It blends native Marzemino with international Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The wine has...
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Domaine de l'Octavin Potion Magique 2018
A mind-bending field blend of 40% Poulsard, 40% Chardonnay and 20% Savagnin from La Mailloche. Picked on the 5th of September, these were the first grapes Alice harvested in the Jura. The grapes were destemmed and fermented on the skins for seven...
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Sam Vinciullo Red/White 2018
An unconventional, completely delicious blend of 75% Sauvignon Blanc with 25% Shiraz. This is more red than white, but the herbal notes of the Sauvignon bring a lightness and freshness. The fruit is incredibly pure, soft and roundeded and has the effect...
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Cantina Giardino Tu 2019
A true field blend of grapes red and white from an old vineyard in Montemarano. Aglianico, Primitivo, Piedirosso, Coda di Volpe and more spent two days on skins, before being pressed off to old chestnut casks for nine months. There is a beautiful...
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Rosé Wine
There is a common misconception in this country that rosé wines should only be drunk in the clement months when the sun shines. Sure, we have some examples of the classic Provence style; pale, crisp, undeniably delicious on a summer’s day. But that’s to ignore the many other styles of wine in this category, such as the deeply-coloured rosatos to be found all over Italy, made by producers like Lamoresca in Sicily and Farnea in the Veneto. Some of the wines blur the lines between a pink wine and a red wine so light and fresh it is best served chilled. The fun is in finding out just what it is. Organic, biodynamic and natural rosé in its many multi-toned expressions.