#1 Best Selling Rosé and #11 Best Selling Wine at The Vintage Wine Shoppe
From the Importer: Kermit Lynch
For nearly fifty years, Domaine de Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris and Domaine Tempier’s Bandol have represented a sort of yin and yang of our southern French rosés. If Bandol offers a darker, stonier, and more robust wine, Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris delivers a crisper and more featherweight expression of the South. Made mostly from Grenache Gris—a lighter-hued mutation of the more common Grenache Noir grape—this “vin gris” is so refreshing and versatile that it’s probably the most popular bottle among KLWM staff each spring and summer—possibly even all year. Need a bottle that’s salad-friendly for your next picnic? Check. Or a glass to enjoy while you’re tending the grill? Look no further. Or—perhaps most importantly—need a wine for a mixed company with a variety of preferences for white, rosé, and even red? Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris has the frame and acidity for white-wine lovers while it delivers the succulence, spice, and faint red-berry notes for your friends who prefer reds. You’ll realize as soon as you taste it why this has been one of our essential cuvées for nearly five decades.
Winemaker Notes
On the nose, expressive, fine and delicate. The fruitiness expresses itself immediately with notes of white fruits, vine peach, followed by exotic flavors, such as pineapple and mango. On the palate, it immediately showcases a great freshness. The density and richness of the fruit merge with a superb acid vitality, thus offering a delicious wine with magnificent persistence.
