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Gérard Bertrand‘s Le Chouchou 2023 is the winery’s answer to new consumer trends, producing a light, fresh red wine. It has low alcohol content and can be enjoyed at a cooler temperature. It sits somewhere between a rosé and a fuller-bodied red wine, IMHO. This wine is a blend of organic Grenache, Syrah, and Cinsault grapes coming from Cevennes, Limoux,…
Here are two Gérard Bertrand Côte des Roses wines for you to try. The Grenache-Vermentino-Viognier 2020 and the Grenache-Syrah-Cinsault 2021 Rosé. The Rosé has been around for a while and has been a favourite of many people. Both wines come in a very distinctive and beautiful bottle with a rose petal-shaped base. Instead of cork, Gérard Bertrand is using a glass stopper to…
It has been four years since I last attended Taste Washington in Seattle. COVID shut down the event, but now Taste Washington is back and maybe even better. This is the event where you can taste the wide variety of wines made across Washington state, without having to drive yourself. Winery focus seems to have changed. During my tasting time,…
Here are two more Gérard Bertrand Côte des Roses wines for you to try. The Pinot Noir 2019 and the Grenache-Syrah-Cinsault 2020 Rosé. The Rosé has been around for a while and has been a favourite of many people. Again in the stylish bottle with the rose petal base and the glass stopper. In case you did not know, all…
Today I have another lesser-known AOC in the southern Rhone Valley – AOC Ventoux. You may be very familiar with one of the wineries from AOC Ventoux, Château Pesquié. Their wine labels in solid blocks of colour should be very familiar to you when you check on the shelves in the BC Liquor Stores and elsewhere across Canada. I have…
Please welcome Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné, an iconic winery from Hermitage in the Northern Rhone Valley to the Vancouver International Wine Festival. Let them introduce themselves to you today. About Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné In 1834, a full 100 years before the introduction of the A.O.C. system, Antoine Jaboulet began to transform a sleepy region into one of the most…
Provence rosé wines have been conquering the world. Their growth has been double digits for several years in Canada and the USA; it is spreading in China; French people drink more rosé than white wine. Need I continue? I had a chance to interview Valerie Lelong, Marketing & Communications Export Manager from Vins de Provence about the current state of rosé…
