Rameau d’Or Rosé Côtes de Provence
$32, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Provence/France.
Pale in the glass and refreshing from start to finish. Oranges, red cherries, sweet spice and earth flavours with whispers of assorted spring blossoms. There’s a slip of texture – you can almost feel the grape skins – and a decent burst of energetic flavour through the finish. 90 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.
