Costieres de Nimes: Chateau Roubaud: Cuvee Passion Rose 2010
Description
A deep coloured rosé wine with ample red berry fruit aromas that give way to a soft, fruity palate prior to a long, dry finish.
- Style: Rosé Wine, Dry (Sec), Medium-bodied
- Region: Languedoc, Costieres de Nimes,
- Producer: Guillaume Molinier
- Vintage: 2010
- Grape variety (Cépage): Grenache Noir, Syrah
- Wine pairing - drink with: Olives, Charcuterie
- Cellarage: Best drunk young within 2-3 years of vintage.
- Vinification: The grapes are picked at optimum ripeness and made by the saignant method a process whereby the wine is made by running off a certain amount of free-run juice from just-crushed dark-skinned grapes after a short, pre-fermentation maceration. The resulting wine has a dark pink appearance.
- Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 13%
- Full Tasting Notes (PDF): Download

Costières de Nîmes: Château Roubaud: Cuvée Passion Rosé 2010
Syrah and Grenache are combined to good effect to produce an attractive, brick-pink rosé wine that is dry, fairly full-bodied and is ideal for picnics and barbecues.