Le Caprice de Clémentine Rosé 2024
AOC Côtes de Provence, Château Les Valentines, 750 ml
A good mood Rosé
- Caprice de Clémentine – a name inspired by the daughter of the house and her sunny nature.
- Peach, mandarin, red berries. Round, juicy and fragrant on the palate, with lively acidity and a delicate melt.
- Ideal with light summer dishes, antipasti, grilled vegetables or simply as an aperitif on sunny days.
Description
When the Pons family took over the vineyard in Provence at the end of the 1990s, they named it Les Valentines, a combination of the first names of their children, Valentin and Clémentine. This rosé with a sunny disposition comes from a «caprice», a whim of Clémentine. Peach, mandarin, red berries. Round and drinkable on the palate with fragrant fruit, tangy acidity and a fine melt. Enjoy in big sips! A relaxed accompaniment to a Sunday barbecue with friends, summer salads or crostini with olive tapenade.
Attributes
| Grape variety: | Cinsault, Grenache |
| Producer: | Château Les Valentines |
| Origin: | France / Provence / Côtes de Provence |
| Other vintages: | 2025 |
| Ripening potential: | 1 to 4 years |
| Drinking temperature: | 8 to 10 °C |
| Food Pairing: | Salad with vegetables, pulses, pasta, Apéro riche, Grilled fish, Mild semi-hard cheese, Vegetable cous-cous |
| Vinification: | fermentation in steel tank, pressed carefully and immediately, fermentation at low temperatures |
| Maturation: | in steel tank |
| Bottling: | filtration |
| Volume: | 13.0 % |
| Note: | Contains sulphites |
Cinsault
Sun in a glass
The southern French Cinsault, also written Cinsaut, is a curiosity among the grape varieties. It belongs to the so-called “dyer grapes”. These are red grapes in which the pigments sit not only in the skins but also in the flesh. That means, when the Cinsault is pressed, pink juice results, rather than the white you see from other grapes. Previously, the Cinsault was used to spice up lighter-coloured Burgundy. But now it has become emancipated. With a soft, fruity style, seductive raspberry and strawberry aromas and good aging potential, it mixes with the most renowned growths from the southern Rhône, around the Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Solo, it yields wonderfully aromatic rosés.
France
France – Philosophy in a bottle
According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”
