Château d'Esclans - Garrus - Rosé - 2017 - 1500ml - Château d'Esclans

Only the best quality fruit is selected in the production of Garrus, from the top parcels of 80 year old Grenache as well as some Rolle, or Vermentino as it is known in Italy. Unlike most rosé, it is a wine designed to age. The wine is barrel fermented and then aged for ten months in barrel on the lees.“This is a spherical wine with a gossamer sheen. This will be a typically long-lived Garrus, and it will show a more fluid and lively side to this label’s character than we have seen before, but don’t, for a second take your eye off this wine because it will bite. There is a rapier-sharp acidity here which is every bit as combative as in years gone by and, dare I say it, it seems even more finessed in this department than in any previous vintage. This is a fascinating wine and one which I anticipate will prove even more successful to newcomers to Esclans than its preceding vintage, simply because the fruit is so damned stunning already.