Villa des Anges Cinsault Old Vines Rosé 2025Pale, light, and effortlessly drinkable. Aromas of wild strawberry skin, red currant, watermelon rind, and garrigue lead into a nimble palate of tart raspberry, pink grapefruit pith, and a subtle saline lift. Old vines add quiet focus without weight, finishing clean, savory, and refreshingly dry

Fully mature and entering its prime drinking window

This is tibouren with a long memory

Petite Sirah deepens the core with blueberry skin

the granite gives it spine and the native varieties provide aromatic complexity without heaviness

insatiably curious

I am behind the times

And then there are 22 more hectares of historic vineyards in the Haut-Medoc that are grandfathered in as Saint Julien

edged with iron and wet stone

And in that taste

Willett Family Estate Four Year Rye has always been one of those bottles

Agrapart remains small

Triennes has been transformed from a neglected parcel in an obscure