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What do you do when you have a party of four and two are going to eat beef and the other two are going to eat fish? Do you order a bottle of red and a bottle of white and risk the wrath of the health authorities? Do you order two half bottles even though the choice is limited? Or, do you at least share a bottle of wine even if you are not sharing the food and order a bottle of Les Restanques du Moulin Bandol Rosé 2012.
Well I chose the latter and this was a superb wine which goes equally well with grilled Côte de Bœuf
and Grilled Sea Bass. Bandol is one of my favourite wines. The Rosé is made from a mixture of Mourvèdre, Grenache, Cinsault grapes.
This wine has a lovely aroma with a taste of raspberries, strawberries and other red fruits. At 28 EUR for a bottle in a Restaurant it was particularly good value for money. You can buy it on the retail market for around 10 EUR a bottle.
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The food and service in the restaurant was also of high quality. Although I ate fish, I also tasted rather a lot of one of our company's Côte de Bœuf. The wine went extremely well with both. Perhaps my wine education was not wasted after all.
Sipping the wine also made me reflect on my good fortune to be able to drink such good wine in such favourable circumstances. Maybe the wine course made a philosopher out of me as well!
The restaurant was very good with customer service and the waitress ignored my wife's entreaties not to serve chips with my fish. Fish and chips is not just the preserve of the British, as the French, Belgians and Spanish love this combination too.
The restaurant had a nice mix of tourists and local people. It is well worth visiting the L'Homme De Bois and Honfleur too.
Bandol Rosé is not made from mixing white wine and red wine but from a special technique which only allows the skin of the black grapes a short period of contact with the fermentation must. Producing Rosé wine from blending red and white white is banned in France except for the Champagne region.
Bandol Rouge is also a very fine wine made primarily from the Mourvèdre black grape.
The Bandol region of Provence also produces some fine white wines.
If you have not tried Bandol then I strongly recommend that you do, especially the Red. You will not be disappointed.
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