Château Vannières, first built in 1547 above Bandol, has belonged to the Burgundy-born Boisseaux family since 1957; Éric and his son Charles-Éric run 32 organic hectares on clay-limestone and marl, facing south-south-east. This IGP Méditerranée rosé blends 40% Cinsault, 30% Grenache and 30% Mourvèdre, hand-picked in small crates, sorted, destemmed and gently crushed at 8°C, then fermented cool in stainless steel.
One of Tavel`s historic domaines: a family property dating from the 16th century, reorganised in the late 1990s by Mireille Petit-Roudil and now run by Gaël Petit, who takes advice from Éric Pfifferling of L`Anglore. Tavel is a rosé-only appellation. Hachette praised an earlier vintage as charming and fine.
