A Cru Provence Rosé from Aldi-Everlight Provence Rosé 2025

SPEAKER_00

0:02

Hey, welcome. Uh Domain Dave, cheaperwinefinder.com. With another wine we've got for you, a value price wine. This time it's from Aldi. And it's a nice rose, uh, just in time for Mother's Day. It's$12.99. Uh we'll get into that in a little bit. The name of it is the Ever Light Provence Rose 2025. It's$12.99 from Aldi, which is a little high. Uh they have champagnes and sometimes some Napa wines, but this turned out that I thought, what's going on? Is this for the uh the tariffs? And it and it could be a little bit high for the tariffs. But what they're what this is is a crew wine. You know, there's the levels that you see at Aldi and Trader Joe's and that type of thing. IGP, which is a step below the top quality. There's AOP in France, and that's the good stuff, and then there's levels inside that, and this is crew, and then there's grand crew and that type of stuff. But crew is a step above the AOP. So this is a crew Provence wine. Well, a lot of times in these$10,$12 Provence wines, they're kind of a taste of Provence. They're from that region, and occasionally they're they're blended from the whole place. But this time, this is from the region. It's from the crew area. Uh, it's not that much, it's in a valley between two mountains. And yeah, I'm gonna take a sip. The uh, let me grab the bottle and um it's kind of interesting. The um the name of the producer is supposed to be Chesseau et Pelay, which is Chesseau and Family. And I'm okay, oh it's like they're name a producer. And I looked, and it turns out this isn't a bad thing. Aldi Europe, and you know Aldi's a German company, Trader Joe's Aldi North, and Aldi is Aldi South in Europe. When Aldi gets a French wine, often for value wines, they use that name from from uh Bordeaux to Languedoc to the Rome. You know, I mean, that's the name, and that name signifies for a lot of people that this is a value-priced wine, a good value price, a high quality wine. So that name means nothing to us, but in Europe that means, ah, we're this is a good one. This is gonna be good. So$12.99 for a crew uh Provence is actually a really good wine. I mean, a good price. You don't normally get crew wines for$13. I'm gonna take another sip. It's got a nice bottle, it's embossed, and the label's classic and the Everlight name on it. Not complicated, just simple. So if you're gonna have a wine for Mother's Day, you're not, hey mine, I'm going cheap on you. No. Well, we're cheap wine finders, we wouldn't care anyway. But no, it looks good on the table, it looks proper. I mean, this is and it and it's crew. I mean, you for 12 bucks you're gonna have a hard time finding crew roses. And this is one of them. And Aldi has excellent resources in Europe. I don't think Aldi's quite as good as Trader Joe's in in California, but in Europe they're pretty sna they're pretty, they're they're excellent. And and when European Aldi wines come to the United States, that's a good thing. We don't always get them. And here we've got one. So what's it like? It tastes like pink lemonade, some cherry, some nectarine. Take another sip. It's got um nice acidity, got a slap of spice. The nose is very floral, spring bouquet. It's got maybe a little bit of bubblegum in there, cherries, just just springtime beautiful things. This is a very balanced wine. You know, um, you know, one of my fantasies, which I know I'm not gonna do, is to be in a um little cafe around the courthouse, around the big church in the center of town, and you're sitting there, the little little uh umbrella over your head, and you're just sitting there all day watching people go by in the south of France, boats bobbing in the harbor, and for like four hours you're drinking rose, it's just sipping on it, not nothing crazy. And you're just very happy. And this is one of those wines. This is one of those sip all day wines. So, actually, for Mother's Day, it would be a very good thing. It's this is um very much a sipping wine. I'm gonna take another sip. The name is Everlight, and it is kind of um true to form. This isn't a wine that I would necessarily, and you could have it with uh light food. Um it's not sweet, so you wouldn't want it with uh, you know, anything, anything, uh pastries or anything. You wouldn't want that. And you can have like light food with it, but this is not going, it doesn't have the acidity, it doesn't have the the body to go with too many meals. Maybe a light salad would be fine, you know, a cranberry with vinaigrette dressing and that type of thing. I'm gonna take another sip. It's one of those wines you're gonna want to sip. Yeah, it's fine. It's delicate, it's flavorful, it's well made. It's$12.99. It's a crew wine. You know, you don't get those wines again that often. I don't know how many you're gonna have your store of urinality. Go out and get it. I mean, uh grab two, grab one for now so you can decide uh what kind of little salad you want with it or whatever you're gonna have that anybody's gonna eat. And another one to open up from on. And it works just fine. So this is the Everlad Provence Rose 2025. It is a crew wine, AOP Crew. So that's legit. It is a very good wine at a very good price. So adios, keep it cheap. I've got a again, I kind of put it off, but I've got a kind of a Sanjiovesi from Tuscany. It's kind of wild. So we'll talk about that in a couple days. Adios, bye bye, keep it cheap.