“You can pay more for a good rosé, but you don’t have to.”

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I’m starting to see more new vintages of wines I’ve reviewed in the past year, which of course, offers plenty of new scouting opportunities for this taster, along with the corresponding chances to compare them with their predecessors. This is fun for a wine geek like me, because I can gauge the continuity of styles as they progress, or sometimes digress from those that came before.

This dry rosé is a good example. I’ve enjoyed more than a few Campuget wines over the years, but this is the one I’ve seen most often lately. Like last year’s model, it’s a solid value at a very good price (and a buck cheaper to boot, go figure). It’s not entirely clear how or why a wine that has previously been designated as produced in Costieres de Nimes is now listed as an IGP, when even the tech sheet still says it’s from Costieres de Nimes. Whatever the case, the important thing is what’s in the bottle, and this stuff is much to my liking. Continue reading →