I'm not an expert so apart from my favourites I usually go for local wine or I choose based on all sorts of random connections my mind makes. It was an easy pick in the middle of old school golfeteria though.
It comes from Les Marquets, which isn't a single château style estate, but a cooperative winery. It belongs to Les Vignerons du Plan-de-la-Tour, a group of local growers who joined forces back in 1962 to make and sell wine together. Around 170-200 hectares of vineyards are cultivated collectively. About 98% of their production is AOP Côtes de Provence. It’s one of the smaller cooperatives making it more appealing to those avoiding the mainstream industrial scale type. They are based in Plan-de-la-Tour, a small village in the Var departament right near St-Tropez. This whole area is part of the Côtes de Provence AOC, which is the largest appellation in Provence (~20 000 hectares), producing mostly rosé (~80%).
Not surprisingly, they practice night harvesting, the most logistically demanding and genuinely rare part of the process.
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On archive doucement, mais on continue.
