La Bernarde -- 2019 ‘Les Hauts du Luc’ Rosé (Cinsault, Grenache, Mourvedre, Rolle, Syrah) -- Cotes de Provence, France Chianti producers no longer have

Chianti producers no longer have to produce their wines according to a recipe intended to produce light weight wines—the old recipe required a significant amount of white wine

To continue the Barolo metaphor

this Sauvignon Blanc is great

and this 2017 is just getting started

these far Northern Pinot Noirs have shed their rusticity

La Bernarde -- 2019 ‘Les Hauts du Luc’ Rosé (Cinsault, Grenache, Mourvedre, Rolle, Syrah) -- Cotes de Provence, France Chianti producers no longer haveWith the highest vineyards in the Cotes de Provence appellation at 350 meters (it even gets snow during the winter), stony limestone soils and certified organically grown grapes coming exclusively from its estate vineyards, La Bernarde is a very rare wine. Must be expensive, right? Amazingly it is not, and thus makes the cut for Kompas Wine Club. Composed of 46% Cinsault, 27% Grenache, 11% Mourvedre, 9% Rolle, 7% Syrah, this is Ros for any time of