ROSÉ

The Rosé of the Mezan Luis Estate is the estate's summer wine — the most seasonal and most immediately accessible of the four wines produced from the estate's 5,000 individually tended Friulian vines. It is produced with the same 100% artisanal commitment, the same individual vine attention, and the same refusal of synthetic treatments that characterises all of the Luis Estate's productions — qualities that give even this most apparently casual of wine styles a foundation of genuine agricultural conviction.

The summer wine characterisation is both an honest description of the wine's seasonal appeal and a reflection of the estate's understanding of how different wines serve different moments and different needs. The Rosé does not attempt to compete with the structural ambition of the Mezàn PIWI white or the Lagrein red; it occupies its own specific and well-defined position in the portfolio as the wine for the warm-weather occasion, the outdoor table, the moment of uncomplicated pleasure.

Fruity notes of strawberry and raspberry on the nose — the classic summer rosé aromatic register delivered with the particular freshness that the Luis Estate's individual vine attention and artisanal winemaking consistently achieve. Pleasant acidity gives the wine the lift and the refreshing quality that summer occasions require. Ideal as an accompaniment to light meals.

The 5,000 vines of the Luis Estate receive the same care in producing the Rosé as they do in producing the more ambitious Mezàn — an equity of attention that reflects the estate's conviction that each vine and each wine deserves the same commitment regardless of the wine's position in the portfolio hierarchy.

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