What’s Keeping You Fresh in This Heatwave?
Hint: Marina Bovard’s rosé of Pinot Noir
Everyone seems to have a strategy.
Swimming in the lake.
Closing the shutters.
Escaping to the mountains.
Eating only watermelon salad.
Personally, I’ve been thinking about Marina Bovard’s rosé.
At our recent Dinner in the Vineyards in Epesses, I spent most of the evening running around making sure everything was working as it should. Thirty people. Four tables. Food. Wine. Introductions. Organised chaos (and I loved every minute of it)!
What I wasn’t paying much attention to was which wines people were drinking.
Until they started asking about the rosé. Most tables asked for a second bottle (third?) of her rosé. Several guests asked where they could buy it. Others wanted to know if Marina delivers her wine. More than one person made a note to take some home.
Her rosé became the unofficial wine of the evening.
To be fair, the conditions were ideal.
A warm evening in Lavaux. A garden overlooking Lac Léman. Good food. Good company. The kind of weather that makes a chilled glass of rosé feel less like a beverage and more like a survival strategy.
But the wine deserves some credit too.
Made by Marina Bovard in Epesses, this is not one of those anonymous supermarket rosés that appear every summer and disappear again in September. It comes from a small, independent Lavaux estate run by one of the region’s last independent vigneronnes.
If you’ve never met Marina, she’s worth getting to know. I recently wrote about her story, her family, and her vineyard here:
Like Marina herself, her rosé is straightforward, unpretentious, and easy to enjoy.
No complicated tasting notes.
No need to discuss whether you’re detecting hints of white peach, wild strawberry, or the tears of whispering angels.
Just a well-made local wine that tastes particularly good when the temperature climbs above 30°C.
So, given the current heatwave, I thought I’d share the details for anyone who has asked about it.
Rosé de Pinot, Marina Bovard, Epesses, Lavaux
La Vie Suisse en Rosé
Some people drink Whispering Angel. We wish them well.
90 CHF for 6 bottles