2016 Chateau Leoube Petit Rose Tout Simple Cotes de Provence 750 ml

From the Most Expensive Rosé to the Best Priced

Your Autumn gift is right here. When a family member of the highest-scored and most expensive rosés on the market makes an affordable rosé in the same class — you have no time to waste. Rosé-making-superstar Romain Ott comes from a family of superstars. Born to the Domaines Ott family, Romain has gone from producing Provence’s most expensive rosé to its best priced rosé — bypassing the standard Domaines Ott price of $65 per bottle in place of an eye-popping $19.99 per bottle. Think it’s too late in the season for rosé? We’ll quote Kermit Lynch, the king of U.S. wine importers to answer: “To those of you who think rosé is just a summer beverage ... you gotta be kidding.” Take our word for it — hit the “Buy” button now.

After Domaines Ott was sold to the Roederer family in the late 1990s, Romain Ott was approached by the owner of Château Léoube to take the reigns and produce wine from the old-vine, certified organic vineyards on the estate. The warm days, cool nights, and close proximity to the water and cooling Mistral winds make Château Léoube and ideal site, perfectly poised to make world class rosé.

Château Léoube sits on 1,384 acres along the gorgeous coastline of the Côtes d’Azur.  Stretching a breathtaking 2.5 miles in length, the estate makes up the largest privately owned property beside the rocky shoreline and white sandy beaches of the Mediterranean Sea. Its uniquely diverse soils of varying clay, sand, quartz and mica schist add to the production of Léoube’s star grape varieties: Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Mourvèdre. The deep-rooted, old vines maintain very low yields and picking is only done by hand according to the biodynamic calendar.