Posts Tagged ‘Chateau d’Esclans’

Jun
27

Luigi Buonanno: Are all rosé wines dull?

By Luigi Buonanno, Wine Buyer and Group Sommelier at Etrusca restaurants

Rose wine

It is a common thought that fine wine is red. This is due to the fact that the most complex and long–lived wines are red, but a lot of people do not drink red wine, preferring the freshness and drinkability of white wine instead.

The understanding becomes more intricate when the testing ground is …

Aug
05

Chateau d’Esclans Esclans Rosé 2008 (Provence, France)

Everyone loves rosé especially when it is sunny. And there are so many styles around, from syrupy Californian numbers that taste like the boiled sweets to the wonderfully alliterative posh, pale Provencal numbers. You can go cheap (and quite possibly nasty) or you can splash the cash on a £70 bottle. Can you really spend £70 on rosé? Amazingly, yes, you can…

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