Stéphane’s 2023 Rosé was awarded France's Guide Hachette des Vins “Coup de Coeur” this year, and we asked him to bottle our US allocation from a selection of his oldest vines of Mourvédre, Grenache, Cinsault, and Syrah in the "Calcaire de Langesse" terroir — pure limestone directly eroded down from Sainte-Victoire’s mountain massif. The grapes are hand-picked, sorted, and de-stemmed before being aged in French demi-muids and foudres for eight months.
From old vineyards overlapping those of legendary Château Simone, Stéphane Spitzglous began making wine in his garage in 2010, went bio in 2013, and this past decade has quietly transformed his estate into one of the darlings of the Provençal wine scene.
The smallest and oldest AOC in Provence, Palette was created in 1948 and is a few minutes drive East of Aix-En-Provence. Covered in pine forests between 500 and 750 feet above sea level, this unique microclimate is surrounded by three rocky massifs –the Barres de Langesse, the Grand Cabri, and the Montagne du Cengle - and unlike anything else in Provence it allows for fine thoroughbred wines with serious finesse.
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