Château d'Esclans

Les Clans

France, Provence

2024

A rosé built to age, Château d'Esclans Les Clans 2024 is made from a blend of old vine grenache and rolle from high elevation vineyards with limestone-rich gravel soils. Elegant and well balanced, it's a celebration of red fruit flavours that would pair perfectly with summer salads, pastas or salmon.

Château d'Esclans – acquired in 2006 by Sacha Lichine – is the engine of the modern 'rosé Renaissance,' elevating Provence rosé to global prestige. The estate produces a tiered range culminating in Les Clans and Garrus, often cited among the world's greatest rosés for their depth, refinement and oak‑influenced complexity.

Vineyards

With fruit drawn from old‑vine grenache and other local varieties, Les Clans represents a more structured, haute‑cuisine style of rosé, shaped by Lichine's vision and the pioneering work of founding winemaker Patrick Léon. D'Esclans has become a global reference point, exporting to 100+ countries and reshaping the category.

Tasting
NOTES

With grenache dominating the blend, the nose is full of juicy red fruit flavours including watermelon, raspberry, strawberry, red currant and cherry along with mandarin, grapefruit, bergamot and sun-ripe apricots. The same flavours are found on the palate, which is lively and fresh with bright acidity, intense fruit, and a waxy texture. There are almond blossom and orange peel flavours too, with a wet rock minerality on the finish. An elegant, well balanced, well-made rosé.

Food
PAIRINGS

This watermelon-scented rosé would work best with light, summery dishes, from salads and pastas to poached salmon, or a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel.