Elizabeth Gabay Taste: Food & Drink Wines and Spirits of Provence

Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu Rosé 2015

Elizabeth Gabay — May 30, 2016

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Contributor blog post by Liz Gabay MW:

In 2013, the 4^th sub-appellation of Côtes de Provence, Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu, was announced for red and rosé wines, adding to La Londe, Ste Victoire and Fréjus.

Launching a new appellation is no easy process.This took some ten years, which is not atypical. …Continue reading here for details on how 30 producers from Pierrefeu-Cuers-Puget-Ville persisted for a decade to create a new sub-appellation in this area known for flint.

Via:: Elizabeth Gabay

Tags:Côtes de Provence,Pierrefeu,Rosé,Wines of Provence

Elizabeth Gabay

I first started coming to Provence regularly in the mid-1980s when, with my family, we invested in a small cottage in the central Var. I started to specialise in the wines of the area, selling them in the UK – way before Provencal rosé became fashionable. A 10 year pause in the 1990s while I worked at the Master of Wine degree, got married and had my two children before we decided to make a move to France full time. Based to the north of the wine region of Bellet and Nice since 2002, I write about the wines of south east France and Liguria (as well as other countries). I particularly enjoy the cultural and historical background to wine and some of the more obscure facts.

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