The Brunier Brothers’ Well Kept Secret: Les Pallières Rosé – One sip and you’ll be hooked!
2008 Les Pallières au petit bonheur rosé. This is a very beautiful rosé from the Gigondas region in the southern Rhone valley. I do not say it lightly. I never turn down a glass of rosé, especially at lunch, but it is not a wine I would seek out. Usually bright, acidic, very pink, very easy to forget — but this one is different.
First, the color is softer. It is more dawn than sunset. The taste is clementine and small strawberries. This wine is a little riper than many of the Grenache rosés. The touch of the acid is light, and it is buffered with fruit and wood. At the end, the taste resolves into a moment of warm vanilla. Very briefly, like a memory of oak. If you look back, it’s gone.
Gigondas is famous for its large-scale herbaceous reds. The rosé has a little of that sauvage style, but it is very restrained. This is a wine to be drunk in the middle of the day. You could keep your tie on. You might do something useful later.
This small revelation is at Dedalus for $18.95
Tuta 6/16/09
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Comment by Abby on 7 July 2009:
We tried this at our Fourth of July celebration and found it went equally good with our grilled shrimp and veggies as it did with hot dogs and potato salad. An excellent and versatile wine.