Yes Way Rosé

Absolutelé Fabulous in the South of France, Part Deux

Undoubtedlé, the highlight of the year for Yes Way Rosé is when we travel to the South of France in the fall to work with our wine team on the new vintage. Visiting the motherland of rosé and spending time in the vineyards and facilities where our wines are produced is always inspiring. We are doubly fortunate to have bonus time while there to tour the beautiful countryside and try the local cuisine. Here are some of the highlights.

The dramatic entryway to the Domaine de Fontenille a lovely (and reasonably priced) modern chateau.

Breakfast of champions at Domaine de Fontenille.

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We stayed at Domaine de Fontenille, a modern château in the Luberon with everything you could want in a Provence hotel: an on-site vineyard where their house wine is made, a beautiful pool, a Michelin-starred classic French restaurant, rose gardens, and a decadent breakfast spread with the most divine patisseries.

Wild white horses of Camargue.

We drove west to Camargue, a natural wonderland and western Europe’s largest river delta situated where the Rhône meets the Mediterranean sea. The area is known for its wild white horses, pink flamingos (which devastainglé had migrated by the time of our visit), black bulls, salt flats, and pink lakes. For us, finding a pink body of water is like winning the lotteré so this visit was a spectacular treat. The water turns this striking color because of algae that produces a red pigment from the sun.

The pink salt lakes are known as Salin d’Aigues-Mortes.

On-brand spotting: pink salt lakes in Camargue.

During a trip to Camargue you must also stop in Aigues-Mortes, an enclosed medieval town that upon entering is surprisingly bustling with restaurants, shops, and people who actually live there. We enjoyed a special several-course lunch at Hôtel Restaurant Villa Mazarin and left drunk on life.

We left a day visiting the pink lakes, salt flats, and bustling medieval town of Aigues-Mortes in Camargue feeling drunk on life.

Le Colorado Provençal in Rustrel, Luberon. Aka the Colorado of Provence.

We discovered that the South of France has their own version of Colorado, too. In Rustrel in the Luberon, Le Colorado Provençal is comprised of ochre quarries and hiking trails with breathtaking views. This was the point of the trip where we definitely made a scene, taking photos wearing all pink outfits with bottles of Yes Way for an out-of-this-world space age vibe. Luckily, our wine partners are now used to our photo shoot antics.

Ochre quarries and hiking trails are reason to visit Le Colorado Provençal.

The village of Roussillon appears to be entirely pink.

In nearby Roussillon, a fabulous village between the Luberon hills and Monts de Vaucluse, the town appears to be entirely pink because it is positioned in one of the largest deposits of ochre pigments in the world. Lunch with rosé there on a perfect fall day was heavenlé.