Top 100 red wines of Côtes de Provence - Page 4

Discover the top 100 best red wines of Côtes de Provence of Côtes de Provence as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red wines that are popular of Côtes de Provence and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Côtes de Provence

World reference for pale, elegant rosé: salmon to onion-skin hue, notes of strawberry, pink grapefruit, white peach and flowers, fresh, dry, mineral palate, taut finish. 90% of output, the Provençal signature. Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and native Tibouren in the blend. A few fleshy Mediterranean reds (Mourvèdre, Syrah) and saline Vermentino whites.

20,000 ha between sea and Sainte-Victoire, Mediterranean climate, AOC since 1977. The sunshine wine par excellence.

Discover the grape variety: Tibouren

Elegant, complex rosés with a pale salmon robe, airy palate and fresh acidity, showing refined aromas of red fruits (strawberry, raspberry), garrigue, Mediterranean herbs, white flowers and characteristic saline, iodine notes. Also vinified as light, fragrant reds. Star of Provence's great rosés from Côtes de Provence AOC (Cru Classé, Saint-Tropez area). Autochthonous Provençal variety from the Var, likely imported from the Middle East by ancient Phocaean sailors.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Côtes de Provence

red wines from the region of Côtes de Provence go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of blanquette of monkfish with small vegetables, ghormeh sabzi (iranian herbed lamb stew) or pizza with peppers and spicy chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Côtes de Provence

On the nose in the region of Côtes de Provence often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, almonds or non oak and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or vegetal. In the mouth in the region of Côtes de Provence is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.