"Vintages can not appear on Vin de Table labels but Lot numbers that actually signify the vintage can. This wine is a rosé de pressurage, pressed like a white wine. Nose: pink and orange roses, white pepper and peach skins. Fading pink flowers. Ruby grapefruit quarters. Very perfumed. Precise pink raspberry. Mouth: Pink red fruits full of energy. Moderate acid for the vintage with pink grapefruit. Darker pink flowers. White pepper and chalk dust give this wine length and energy. No residual sugar feel, just Cotat fat but dry. the wine has more minerals and dryness than many Cotat wines, that's the vintage expression, but it still has the Cotat magic and difference. Pascal Cotat's land has been de-classed into Vin de Table because the town of Sancerre wanted to turn his vineyard into a parking lot. When he refused, the town hall took away his AC status of the land." Notes from Peter Vezan, an American in France who is in the know and is the conduit between many producers and importers. |