Rosé season has well and truly kicked off, and here is a selection of the very finest so far this year. The 2023 L’Exuberance Rosé) is a delicate flower with an enchanting cranberry, rose petal and sour-cherry nose and vice-like freshness and verve on the finish. The 2022 Ninfalia Rosato La Fiorita Tuscany (£63.42, stannary ), a magnum no less, is a scintillatingly beautiful sangiovese from Montalcino that will cause keen rosé lovers to go weak at the knees with its aromatic complexity, effortless restraint and enchanting wistfulness. Provence is, not surprisingly, well served with a handful of epic new 2023 releases, with 2023 Minuty Cuvée Prestige Rosé (£24.95, ) seeping into one’s senses with its creamily textured watermelon and pink grapefruit-smooched fruit, while 2023 Château La Mascaronne Rosé (£24.90, noblegreen ) builds on its stratospheric reputation with its silkiest and most alluring wine to date.
