The Riviera is synonymous with summer, glamour and luxury, where the sky is blue and the wine is pink. The name that stands above all others as the champion of Provencal wine, and the most famous of all rosés (Mateus doesn't count)... is Domaines Ott. Thanks to a very kind supplier (Maison Marques et Domaines), my boss being in a good mood after a long lunch, and of course Ott itself, I was invited along with five other England-based wine merchants and sommeliers to visit one of their three estates for two days and one night in the glorious Southern French late summer. We visited the most picturesque of Dopmaines Ott's estates: Clos Mireille. It is close enough to the coast that the vineyards stop abruptly at a beach filled with sunbathers. Apparently two properties to
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