What a beautiful rosé this is. There's a 'best of both worlds' feel here, with this lovely strawberry and raspberry fruit flourish, but also a little cool alpine herb sort of high-toned fragrance in a nod to the high altitude vineyard it comes from. Medium-bodied, with this lovely flourish of fruit and then a crisp finish, it's not hard to be addicted to pretty wines like this from Domaine Laguerre.

Sitting at 500m above the ancient village of Perpignan, not far from the French and Spanish border, lies Domaine Laguerre. Here, Éric and Corinne Laguerre work a 40ha plot that was Éric's family's property before he took over in 1999. Over the past three decades, the pair have embraced a natural wine production ethos, starting with a replanting of the whole vineyard, and then a move to full biodynamic certification. What sets these wines apart is the unique high-altitude terroir. You have to traverse steep roads through a mountain pass to reach the vineyards, which sit at a cool 500 metres above sea level: the highest in this part of Roussillon. The soils here are hard, all granite and quartz, and between the elevation and the famous "tramontane" winds, the whole feel is cooler and fresher. This allows Éric to harvest later in the year to get perfect ripeness while keeping that signature freshness and mineral tension. The whites from Domaine Laguerre, made from a smorgasbord of grapes covering everything from Grenache Blanc to Rolle (Vermentino) offer a beautiful mix of purity and weight, while the Grenache and Syrah-driven reds are powerful and complex without ever feeling heavy.