Hewitson Lu Lu Rosé 2026
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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The grapes remain anonymous, but the maker says he uses Provencal varieties in keeping with the kind of Rosé wines he was making in Provence back in 1995. Whatever the grapes are, they produce the most stunning, lifted aroma of wild strawberry, cherry, peony and apple blossom florals with boiled lolly confection notes. The wine, in pale blush hues, is sweet fruited, smooth and inviting texturally with a thread of spice, stewed red cherries, raspberry, earth and musk stick, running all bright and brisk. Finishes with a light phenolic grip that produces a sound structural element to the wine. Summer berries from start to finish.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
