Domaine des Feraud Prestige Provence Rose 2024
$45, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Provence.
This is a delicious dry rosé. It’s strawberried and spicy but then it’s also floral and bright, with tips of rose petal, cooked apple and chalk as highlights. What I particularly like is that it’s suggestive of texture, and suggestive of fruit sweetness, without being either. It walks a tightrope and it walks it beautifully. 93 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
