Pale pink wine

Three years ago I spent 6 months travelling around France looking for the country’s palest bottle of rosé. The adventure was eventually turned into a book - Extremely Pale Rosé - and the winning bottle of wine was a gris from Corsica - Clos Landry. When we presented the wine to the professionals at the Centre de Recherche et Experimentation de Le Vin Rosé in Vidauban they described the colour as “peau de bebe.”

Now it seems to me that the last thing you do when a child has just popped out is compare him or her to a bottle of wine. But then again I am not French, and clearly lack the vinous flights of imagination that enables a wine to be described as the colour of onion skin with the aroma of freshly mown summer grass. I digress..

The Chief Scientist at the Centre de Recherche, Gilles Mason, confirmed that the Corsican Gris was the palest bottle of rosé he had ever seen and my wife and I were delighted. 6 months of hard (ish) work had been rewarded.

Then a week ago a couple of friends of ours Chloe and Alan from Luxembourg sauntered into our house and plonked down a bottle. In a moment all our hard work vanished. The bottle they arrived with was labelled Pinot Noir vinifié en blanc and looking at the wine there was just the slightest faintest fleeting hint of pink. Whatever the label said it was a rosé - wine made from a red grape, which has taken a little colour from the skin.

So you heard it here first, Luxembourg Chateau Edmond de La Fontaine Pinot Noir vinifié en blanc is officially the palest bottle of rosé in the world.

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Comments

[Brian]

But does it taste good?