La Rabassière Rosé 2017

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
"Beautifully fruited and fragrant, the attractively expressed bouquet shows rock melon, raspberry, peach and floral characters with subtle nuances of hazelnut and spice. The palate is wonderfully weighted and fleshy, delivering excellent intensity and expansive mouthfeel, finishing long and complex."

About the wine:
This Grenache and Syrah blend is quite a unique wine in our collection because it aged in oak, which is quite unusual for rosé. La Rabassière was developed for the traditional truffle day of Uzès. This wine will appeal to the most discerning palates. The originality of its vinification in oak casks brings aromatic complexity and great finesse.

About L’Estabel:
Located in the heart of the Hérault near Béziers, the vineyards of the terroir of Cabrières are scattered in a natural amphitheater on the sunny foothills of the lower Cevennes. From the eighth century, historians testify to the presence of this vineyard in Languedoc with its 380 hectares spread among vast scrubland and wood. Here the shale soils have developed in a region where the geology is complicated and because of this, they are of different types: more or less stony, more or less clay or limestone, with or without iron, thin or thick and able to retain water or be traversed by the roots of plants and vines.

Because of its uniqueness, the region has a denomination of its own: AOP Languedoc Cabrières. Created in 1937, the winery today has an average harvest of 15,000 hl on about twenty farms.