9 Year Old Rose?!

It was a perfect day for an indulgent rose! SQN rosés drink more like well built Beaujolais in my opinion. They are atypically full bodied, deep in color and age worthy; almost defying classification.

Think you are spot on, these age more like Cru Beaujolais than traditional Rose and has texture and body like a lighter red.

Maggie Harrison has continued this style at Antica Terra. Really excellent stuff.

Tondonia Gran Reserva Rosado is another that repays significant ageing, and of course unique flavour profile. If you can find it.

I was about to mention the Tondonia—some of the vintages of Tempier and Cotat reward ageing too. I do like the SQN Rose(s).

I have a few bottles of Tavel that I’ve put down for a while as an experiment.

I have a mag of 2012 Domaines Ott Chateau de Selle that I picked up for $20 hammer about 5 years ago in an HDH auction. I’m guess it is WAY past its prime, but who knows? Maybe this summer I’ll find an opportunity to open it….for science!

I have found cayuse rose to age interestingly, but aged rose seems definitely a different stroke for different folks.

Edit to add: I opened my bottle of the OP wine close to release, so no clue on aging. At the time the best analogue I could think of was a relative of beaujolais nouveau.

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Agree with all of the above. Enfield’s rose can age too, I’ve had bottles 4 years old and they were great. Looking back at my notes, like a super light 5 year old Moulin-à-Vent.

I still have a number of Emily’s 2016 Virage roses (mostly Cab Franc), and they are in no danger of going anywhere. I think I have consumed somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 cases of this.

I have a couple of bottles of this that I’m holding.

I had someone post a pretty positive note on my 2016 Mourvedre Rose recently - not 9 years but . . .

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Cotat Rose ages effortlessly

Drank one of these (2016 Virage CF Rose) yesterday and it seems to only be getting better.

2009 Clos Saron PN Rose in 2019 was fantastic.

A 2010 SQN rosé was one of my surprises of the year, over the top but strangely compelling. I’ve had a lot of aged Beaujolais but didn’t find it anything like them, in part because of the 15.7% alcohol but also the flavor profile. The SQN was delightful in its own unique way.

Tempier rose will also give you this type of experience.

Clos Cibonne Tibouren wines from Provence have an incredible ability to age.

Aside from the cotat that others have already noted, the clos lambrays rose certainly needs several years of ageing in my experience.