Gold Cotes de Provence Rose 2024
$70, 13% alcohol, cork, Provence.
The dry stuff is the good stuff, and this rosé is beautifully dry. It has a slight creaminess to its texture, and a bit of grain too, but it’s all strawberry and river-stone characters from there, with the odd flash of roasted/dry spice notes too. This is a sophisticated rosé and an excellent one. 93 points.
Campbell Mattinson
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.
