2025 Domaine de la Fouquette Cuvee Rosee D’Aurore

2025 Domaine de la Fouquette Cuvee Rosee D’AuroreFifteen years ago, Isabelle and Jean Pierre Daziano were taken prisoner by the beauty of the Massif des Maures mountains, the backdrop to their 35 acre organic vineyard and farm in the heart of Provence. Their respect for the land and the labor intensive regimen in the vineyard has resulted in this pale pink cuve emphatically Provenale: dry, crisp and elegant. Candied kumquats, mara des bois strawberries and sharlyn melon aromas leap from the glass.

Mostly direct press with 25% receiving a short skin maceration

The grapes come from a parcel that winemaker Matthieu Barret borrows from a biodynamic buddy of his in Visan

and making wine in the same underground cellar

Another insanely steep

former Parisian barman turned remote-Aveyron winemaker

Barolo isn’t the first or second or even tenth place I’d look to for Chardonnay

) But make no mistake -- this is no mere rosé

Some wineries are popular for reasons beyond our ken

We love the husband-and-wife winemaking team behind Brick & Mortar

and a body that veers between light and medium

it will continue to last and evolve for another decade

Semi-carbonic fermentation amps the aromatic qualities of flower petals and Bing cherries that waft from this juicy