Saranta Chateau Murou Rosé
While I have embarked on a journey to learn to love rosé, that’s not why I bought this one. Of all the wine tasting themes events I’ve done, one theme I’d never done was pink wine. To correct that, I planned one ages ago and bought all the wine. Then. Pandemic. The wine sat, and sat, and sat some more. By the time I finally did get around to hosting a Drink Pink tasting (which I did a few months ago), all the pink wine I’d previously purchased had sat so long that I couldn’t get the same vintages.
So, you know, I drank them myself.
One of those wine came from Kırklareli-based winery, Saranta. The Chateau Murou Rosé from them is a 100% Cinsault. An unusual grape for Turkey, I’ve seen it here and there in blends but it’s almost never a varietal here. Saranta’s vines, almost 30 years old, grow at 70 meters in clayey-sandy soils. I believe they use these grapes only for this rosé.
Saranta Chateau Murou Rosé, 2017
The grapes macerated for four hours which contributed to the medium intense salmon color. I was a little worried about this, it being a 2017. I’ve had some bad experiences recently with rosé that did not age gracefully. Happily, I worried for nothing because this one did.
Vivid aromas of fresh cranberry and raspberry followed by a more restrained geranium petal and pomegranate leaf sprinkled with lemon salt and crushed quartz. The palate presented similar flavors…all the red fruitiness with a savory-herbal edge, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and a musky floral back breath.
Light-bodied with lively acidity and a shockingly low (for Turkey) abv of only 11.5%.