Light salmon pink. Perfume of raspberries. Surprisingly intense gush of
red fruit, very moreish, all the memories of Mediteranean sunshine in a
glass. Now-2012

Product Code: GRV410

Year on year this wine, from Syrah and Grenache grown by the Orosquette family in the Minervois, is our best-selling rosé. Though paler in colour this vintage, it continues to offer very ripe red fruit so is enjoyable as an aperitif yet also dry enough to accompany food.

Owned by the Orosquette family, and named after the gravelly soil on the Etang de Marseillette, Château La Grave lies in the south-western part of the Minervois, now known as Les Balcons de l’Aude. The unusual Expression white is based (80%) on a parcel of old vine Maccabeu, with Vermentino and Marsanne, which makes for a surprisingly weighty wine at the price. Their rosé, made largely from Syrah with Grenache, is always a real charmer, and is our best-selling rosé year after year. The 2009 Tristan et Julien, named after a son and cousin here, from about half and half Syrah and Grenache, was much applauded - Jancis Robinson called it “a lovely house wine ready to quaff” - but the 2010 vintage is even better.