Rococo Rosé

Region
Yarra Valley

Appearance
Very pale pink

Bouquet
Creamy, petal like aromas that are perfumed and complex.

Palate
A soft, light wine with perfectly ripe flavours of raspberries, cherries and strawberries mingled with a splash of pink.

Vintage Conditions
Being a non-vintage wine, vintage conditions vary from season to season. This is a blend of several vintages from selected vineyards. The base wines are blended to a style – creamy, complex, fine, interesting.

Winemaking
Chardonnay for the creaminess, Pinot Meunier for spice and perfume, Pinot Noir for complexity and grace. Fruit is gently pressed to avoid any nasty, bitter flavours. The pressed juice is fermented in both tank and cask at elevated temperatures to ‘blow off’ the fruitiness. The base wines are blended each year and then over blended with previous vintage material to produce the desired flavour profile. The resultant cuvées undergo secondary fermentation to give them their fizz. The finished wine is light and mineral with texture and feel, dry and very delicious.

Wine Analysis
Alc/Vol : 12.0 % pH : 3.11 TA : 7.8 g/L

Cellaring
Drink now. We’ve done the maturation for you

Suggested Cuisine
Try with hors d’oeuvres and canapés

General Characteristics
Dry Light Bodied

"Just love this beautifully textured wine. It has considerable lees influence with the use of older casks playing an important role. You will be through this cracking good drink before you know it."

Ray Jordan, The West Australian - Top 100 Wines, December 2011

8.5
"This rose is sure to be a hit on a warm summer day. Immediately evoking the scent of freshlypicked flowers, the light salmon-hued drop further pleases the nose with a punchy whiff of cherry and vanilla. The sweetness continues
with a burst of strawberry and cream on the palate, finishing with the unexpected but satisfying taste of toasted almonds. Perfect to toast with the girls at the beginning of the night alongside some light, zesty seafood tapas."

Jenna Meade, Geelong Advertiser , December 2011

"Just love this beautifully textured wine. It has considerable lees influence with the use of older casks playing an important role. You will be through this cracking good drink before you know it."

, West Australian , December 2011

87 Points

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James Halliday, Wine Companion 2012, August 2011

91 Points
"This is not a wine for the pink brigade, but if you're serious about sparkling wine, do come in. A particularly bready style, this is a complex wine with funky barrel/yeast/lees overtones, subtle red berry fruits and a zesty cut of mineral acidity on the finish."

Tyson Stelzer, Wine 100, March 2011

"Baroque style packaging hints at a voluptuous incarnation of rosé in the French style from all three traditional champagne grape varieties. Shows strawberries and cream on the nose, followed by jammy fruit on the palate. Easily handles salmon or any tomato based pasta dishes.

Champagne Jayne, Wentworth Courier, February 2011

"If you are heading off to your favourite Japanese restaurant, take along a bottle of this, a great all purpose tipple that will marry well with just about every dish on the menu, notably sushi and sashimi. And it is a match made in heaven with smoked salmon."

Jeff Collerson, Daily Telegraph - Top 10 bottles of wine, January 2011

UK
"Australian winery De Bortoli has launched a sparkling rose to join its blanc de blancs released last year. Using classic Champagne grapes the blend is 78% Chardonnay, 8% Pinot Meunier and 14% Pinot Noir, all from the Yarra Valley. The range takes it name from the Rococo movement that dominated art and design in 18th century Europe."

, Drinks Business, December 2010

91 Points
"A blend of chardonnay, pinot meunier and pinot noir from the Yarra Valley, this has a floral touch with cherry and strawberry fruit on the nose and palate, with some creaminess and a fine acid finish."

, Courier Mail, December 2010

"A sophisticated sister to De Bortoli's newish Rococo Blanc de Blancs sparkling. It's a dominant blend of chardonnay, pinot noir (14 per cent) and pinot meunier (8 per cent), creamy and complex with fragrant rose petal notes on the nose, sweetish red berry fruit flavours, a fine persistent bead and a crisp, dry finish. Drink as an aperitif.

Kerry Skinner, Illawarra Mercury, January 2010

"A sparkling blend of chardonnay, pinot meunier and pinot noir. The colour is a pale, just off-white, candy pink. Lively fragrant nose of rose water and strawberries. Shows a dry, clean palate of new season summer berries with a tang of lemon zest at the finish. Ideal summer luncheon fizz."

Martin Field, www.thewineblog.net, December 2009

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