If you have been paying attention to your “socials”, you will have seen endless articles about which wine to drink if you can’t afford Whispering Angel. This pale, delicate wine has become an icon of the rosé shelves and, while I love a bargain as much as everyone else, I wondered whether it was possible to spend less for the same flavours.
In 2008, long before Provence rosé became the ‘go to’ pink wine of the summer, I visited Ch d’Esclans, the home of Whispering Angel, in the beautiful Vallée des Esclans, just a short drive north of St Tropez. The property, with a massive château, 74 hectares of run-down vineyard and 200 hectares of parkland and forest had just been bought by Sacha Lichine. A few years earlier, the French-born, American-raised Sacha had inherited Ch.
Whispering Angel starts in the glass with a gentle aroma of wild strawberry and red cherry fruit, edged with a whiff of fresh lavender. The palate is rounded and balanced, starting with red fruits, a zing of pink grapefruit and a creamy finish. It is the kind of wine that can be sipped all day and into the evening – which I have done when I attended a wedding a while ago. There were none in the line-up that matched exactly for elegance and balance.
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