WTN: Costieres rose

With lemon/garlic chicken and potatoes, and a baby bok choy salad (first time I've had uncooked, quite good) , the 2007 Ch. Grande Cassagne Rosé (Costieres de Nimes), Dry, reasonably crisp, strawberries and a little cranapple. A pleasant and refreshing rose. B

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

[Robin Garr]

With lemon/garlic chicken and potatoes, and a baby bok choy salad (first time I've had uncooked, quite good) , the 2007 Ch. Grande Cassagne Rosé (Costieres de Nimes), Dry, reasonably crisp, strawberries and a little cranapple. A pleasant and refreshing rose. B

Ch. Grande Cassagne has always been a favorite producer of mine, Dale ... it's a Kacher import, right?

Checking my TNs to confirm that, I notice that I found the 2004 rosé a bit weird, commenting, 'A blast of exuberant, forward mixed-berry fruit is impressive but almost bizarre for my tastes, so potent that it almost communicates an impression of artificial flavorings, with a distinct "bubble gum" character that reminds me of nothing so much as Kool-Aid or a Big Red soft drink. Really not my cuppa, but it's better on the palate, raspberry and strawberry and cherry, almost sweet on the first impression but with sufficient lemon-squirt acidity to dry it out in the long, berry-scented finish. With all that sweet fruit on a sturdy backbone, it might make a good "bridge" wine for a taster seeking to shift from "blush" wines to more serious rosé.'

Huh ... sounds almost like a 2003, doesn't it?

[Jenise]

With lemon/garlic chicken and potatoes, and a baby bok choy salad (first time I've had uncooked, quite good) , the 2007 Ch. Grande Cassagne Rosé (Costieres de Nimes), Dry, reasonably crisp, strawberries and a little cranapple. A pleasant and refreshing rose. B

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.

Ordered a glass of this to pair with a slab of duck terrine at a little French-Danish (the husband and wife chefs are one of each) that opened in B-ham recently. Very nice, and almost worth ordering on a summer day for the beautiful intense color alone.

Huh ... sounds almost like a 2003, doesn't it?

I missed the 2004, but this was my note on the 2003:
Strawberry punch, with apparent RS and fairly low acidity, actually a bit blowsy. Not as good to my palate as
some previous years.

Good rose in 2003 might have been a bit much to expect from anyone, but I'm a little surprised at the '04. Although I think this is never high acid by rose standards(note re the '07 I said reasonably crisp).