Château d'EsclansEsprit Rosé
Pink wine
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Esprit Rosé of Château d'Esclans in the region of Provence often reveals types of flavors of minerality, strawberries or earth and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Esprit Rosé
Pairings that work perfectly with Esprit Rosé
Original food and wine pairings with Esprit Rosé
The Esprit Rosé of Château d'Esclans matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef with panang curry (red curry), sausage and vegetable risotto with cookéo or marinated tacaud fillets.
Details and technical informations about Château d'Esclans's Esprit Rosé.
Discover the grape variety: Courbu blanc
Native variety of the Pyrenean vineyard that does not correspond to the white form of the courbu noir. It should not be confused with the petit courbu, published genetic analysis has shown that it is related to one or more varieties including the lercat and for more details click here! Courbu blanc is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Esprit Rosé from Château d'Esclans are 2015, 2014, 2013
Informations about the Château d'Esclans
The Château d'Esclans is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in the of Côtes de Provence to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Côtes de Provence
The AOC Côtes de Provence is the largest appellation in the Provence wine region of southeastern France. It covers about 20,000 hectares of vineyards, which produce the vast majority of Provence's rosé wine. This appellation includes most of the vineyards in the Var department - essentially the eastern half of the Provence wine region - with the exception of 2,250 hectares North of Toulon which are reserved for the Côteaux Varois en Provence appellation. Although it also covers red and white wine, about 80% of Côtes de Provence production is rosé.
The wine region of Provence
Provence is a wine region in the far southeast of France, best known for the quality (and quantity) of its rosé wines and for its Warm, mild Climate. The modernization that is taking place in many of the traditional wine regions of southern France has not yet taken place to the same extent in Provence, but there are Clear signs of change. The region's Grape varieties, in particular, have come under scrutiny in recent decades. Traditional varieties such as Carignan, Barbaroux (Barbarossa from Sardinia) and Calitor are being replaced by more commercially viable varieties such as Grenache, Syrah and even Cabernet Sauvignon.
The word of the wine: Second fermentation
In the making of champagne, fermentation of the base wine to which is added the liqueur de tirage and which takes place in the bottle. This second fermentation produces the carbon dioxide, and therefore the bubbles that make up the effervescence of the wine.
