La Chapelle 2005 Rose - Cotes du Rhone

 
This is a very nice and dry Cotes du Rhone rose that goes well with food. On it's own other sweeter rose would probably be better, but tonight we had seafood pasta and in the sweltering heat of this week the rose is just the right kind of wine to enjoy on your balcony. This is a relatively value-for-money rose at around 5 pounds. The better Cotes de Provence rose (Bandol, Cassis, etc) is more pricey. This is nice enough though, and much better than the overly sweet Californian Zinfandel I had the other week.