Description
Holden Manz Rothko Rosé 2025 is a Franschhoek rosé made in a Provençal style, built around delicacy, freshness, and a quietly textural finish. This is not a simple fruit bomb or a sugary summer rosé. It leans toward restraint, with pale color, subtle savory detail, and enough palate shape to make it feel polished and complete. For drinkers who enjoy dry rosé with both finesse and presence, this is a very appealing bottle.
In the glass, it shows a pale rose-gold hue. The nose opens with rose petal, white cherry, and fresh peach, followed by a subtle oyster-shell salinity that gives the wine extra lift and coastal character. On the palate, early-season cherry fruit sits over a creamy mineral line, with a silky, crystalline texture that keeps the wine elegant rather than weighty. The finish is long, clean, and composed. It would be especially well suited to oysters, grilled prawns, summer salads, or simple Mediterranean-style dishes where its freshness and saline edge can work naturally with the food.
Made for youthful enjoyment, this is a rosé that captures brightness and refinement in equal measure, with enough texture to carry it beyond casual sipping.
In the glass, it shows a pale rose-gold hue. The nose opens with rose petal, white cherry, and fresh peach, followed by a subtle oyster-shell salinity that gives the wine extra lift and coastal character. On the palate, early-season cherry fruit sits over a creamy mineral line, with a silky, crystalline texture that keeps the wine elegant rather than weighty. The finish is long, clean, and composed. It would be especially well suited to oysters, grilled prawns, summer salads, or simple Mediterranean-style dishes where its freshness and saline edge can work naturally with the food.
Made for youthful enjoyment, this is a rosé that captures brightness and refinement in equal measure, with enough texture to carry it beyond casual sipping.
Crafted in a Provençal style, the wine blends Grenache, Syrah, and Cinsault, with the grapes handpicked between 29 January and 20 February 2024. The fruit was whole-bunch pressed under dry ice using the Champagne cycle, with less than 3 hours of skin contact to preserve delicacy of color while capturing bright fruit character.
This careful, low-intervention pressing regime helps shape the wine’s pale hue, freshness, and refined texture.
Winemaker: Thierry Haberer
This careful, low-intervention pressing regime helps shape the wine’s pale hue, freshness, and refined texture.
Winemaker: Thierry Haberer
Located in the top, southern-most corner of the Franschhoek Valley, in the embrace of its spectacular mountains, the 22 hectare Holden Manz Wine Estate is situated between the Franschhoek River and Stony Brook at 300 meters above sea level. An exclusive grower of red grapes, the Estate only cultivates its top 16 hectares under vineyards, notably Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and Merlot resulting in the production of ultra-premium wines made for the discerning wine connoisseur.
