Rose Wine: 2020 | Domaines Ott | Chateau de Selle Cotes de Provence Rose

This is big on drinkability with light cherry, strawberry and peach aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, creamy and minerally with fresh, stony character. Vivid at the end.

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Producer: Domaines Ott

Ratings: WA | 93 VN | 93

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Syrah

Country/Region: France, Cotes de Provence

This is big on drinkability with light cherry, strawberry and peach aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, creamy and minerally with fresh, stony character. Vivid at the end.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Pale and coppery as usual, Ott’s 2020 Cotes de Provence Rose Chateau de Selle boasts restrained aromas of peach, melon and citrus underscored by hints of crushed stone. In the mouth, it’s medium-bodied and concentrated, with ample intensity, a slightly creamy texture and a long, mouthwatering finish. Like the other top ross of Domaines Ott, this is a wine that is often better in its second year.

• Vinous: Pale salmon skin. Mineral-tinged red currant, raspberry, blood orange and white peach scents are complemented by a suave lavender nuance that builds in the glass. Silky and penetrating on the palate, offering concentrated red berry and pit fruit flavors sharpened by a bitter suggestion of orange pith. Finishes very long and smooth, with repeating floral and pit fruit notes.

Producer Information

Domaines Ott is a wine producer based in the south of France and the producer of some of the most prestigious ros wines in Provence. The domaine is made up of three estates: Clos Mireille, Chteau Romassan and Chteau de Selle, and covers wines falling under both the Bandol and Ctes de Provence appellations. Being Provence, ros makes up an important proportion of the domaine’s wines, and is made from classic Mediterranean varieties like Grenache, Mourvdre, Cinsaut and Syrah. Domaines Ott also produce several red and white wines across the appellations and the estates. A fourth line, By.Ott, was added recently and comprises a ros, white and red wine made in the refurbished Chteau de Selle winery. The estate was founded by Alsatian Marcel Ott, who arrived in Provence in 1896 and began buying vineyards in the post-phylloxera period when vineyard land was reasonably cheap. The three estates were added over the course of the 20th Century: Chteau de Selle was acquired in 1912, Clos Mireille in 1936, and finally, Chteau Romassan in 1956. Each of the three estates makes two wines, and all are bottled in the distinctively shaped bottles which represent the undulating landscape of Provence. Chteau de Selle is the most inland of Ott’s estates, found in Taradeau, in the Var department. The 14 hectares (34 acres) vineyards are planted on terraced slopes on soils that are a mixture of gypsum, red clay, sandstone, gravel and stone with some chalk. It makes a red wine and a ros, both from a blend of varieties planted in the vineyard, which include Grenache, Cinsaut, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Clos Mireille and Chteau Romassan are both located on the coast, the latter in the Bandol AOC (appellation). Romassan makes ros and red wines under the Bandol AOC from Mourvdre, mainly, with some Grenache. Clos Mireille, which is close enough to the ocean to feel the influence of sea spray, makes Domaines Ott’s flagship ros, from Grenache, Cinsaut and Syrah. This vineyard also produces a white wine, made from Semillon and Rolle.