Listel Grain de Gris Rosé

For a $9 Costco wine, this drinks quite well. Nose is full of strawberries and blood orange. Those elements carry over to the palate where they join good acidity and even some wet stone minerality. Crisp, refreshing, and balanced. Would buy again.

Colour: light salmon pink, maybe onion skin. Nose: lemon skin, nectarine, peach. Raspberry, strawberry. Boiled sweets. Palate: lemon, lemon peel. Nectarine, peach. Strawberry. Guava? Lithe fresh linear acidity, citrusy. Touch of phenolics, some bitterness (but not unpleasant). Very fresh, elegant, drinkable. Medium bodied, 12% alcohol. Seal: screwcap. DAY2: still seems good, but has lost a little freshness. Needed to warm up a bit to show well, so don’t serve too cold! Note - is actually IGP Terres du Midi, not …