La Bernarde -- 2019 ‘Les Hauts du Luc’ Rosé (Cinsault, Grenache, Mourvedre, Rolle, Syrah) -- Cotes de Provence, France The wind is so ferocious

The wind is so ferocious that each hoyo is surrounded by rock walls for protection

these far Northern Pinot Noirs have shed their rusticity

Chianti producers no longer have to produce their wines according to a recipe intended to produce light weight wines—the old recipe required a significant amount of white wine

but spared his winery and the wines within it and the jury is still out on how much of his estate vineyards will survive

La Bernarde -- 2019 ‘Les Hauts du Luc’ Rosé (Cinsault, Grenache, Mourvedre, Rolle, Syrah) -- Cotes de Provence, France The wind is so ferociousWith the highest vineyards in the Cotes de Provence appellation at 350 meters (it even gets snow during the winter), stony limestone soils and certified organically grown grapes coming exclusively from its estate vineyards, La Bernarde is a very rare wine. Must be expensive, right? Amazingly it is not, and thus makes the cut for Kompas Wine Club. Composed of 46% Cinsault, 27% Grenache, 11% Mourvedre, 9% Rolle, 7% Syrah, this is Ros for any time of