I’m in the mid Var, near a village called Lorgues.
Me - Régusse
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Found a Roche Mazet merlot rose in intermarche - it falls between a red and white in terms of flavour, lighter and more tart than a red, with a pleasant if not very long finish. 12.5% though, so not a lightweight drink.
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But when you’re by yourself…?
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If you’re after cheap reasonable rosé, there’s 3 and 5 litre boxes of Cote de Provence in supermarkets that’s better wine and better value. Try SuperU if there’s one near you - we had half the village round for apèros the other week and after some mock sarcasm about their riches voisins anglais, they worked through a 5 litre box.
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We sometimes drink this because my friend’s daughter brings it from the Drome where she lives.
Thanks for the tip. This was intended as information really, rather than a recommendation, but I may look out for the box.
I was meeting a friend at the end of his Tour of the Grand Alps last year. He suggested some meeting places one of them being Hotel Clairette in Die. I sent him a photo of one of the bottles. We actually met up a day later in Issoire. We stayed in a château hotel that was the birthplace of Roland La Poype who invented the bodywork that Citroën used for the Méhari. He was a bit of a wartime fighter pilot hero as well. There was a plaque in my bedroom in his honour. A small thread drift.
le plastique ondulé 
Talking of staying in hotel bedrooms, we stayed as a family in the Shaven Crown in Shipton uner Wychwood where Oswald Mosley was interned during the war.
Infamous, not famous!
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It looks lovely. My sort of English hotel.
Update from the vendange; côte de Nuits and Beaune.
Sugar levels are excellent, yields are good and my back hurts.
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