Chevalier du Grand Robert Clairet Rose Wine

This pink Bordeaux ranged from $16.88 to $20.88 in our September 2026 checks. Its shopper average is 4 out of five, from 3 ratings so far. Most of the wines shoppers have scored here carry higher averages than that, though a count this small is a beginning rather than a record.

The company we can name behind the wine is a distributor: Executive Beverage counts Chevalier du Grand Robert among the brands it carries nationally. The brand's own product page for this bottle names the grape and the winery of record: 100 percent Merlot from the 2025 vintage, labeled AOC Bordeaux Clairet and credited to a winery it calls Bordeaux Families.

Bordeaux does two jobs on a wine label. It names a wide region, vineyard country along the Garonne, the Dordogne and the Gironde, and it is also the name of one protected appellation inside that region, with relatives like Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux protected separately. That is why the wording after a big region name matters: these designations are protected separately, so the whole name, not the first word, is the part that stays attached to the wine. Atlantic weather and the rivers influence Bordeaux, though local exposure and distance from the water vary, and the broad name by itself cannot fix a bank, a commune or a vineyard.

Here the whole name adds Clairet, and the wine is sold as a rose.

That same page lists the wine at 12.5 percent alcohol with 5.6 grams per litre of acidity and 3.7 grams per litre of residual sugar, a touch of sweetness rather than a fully dry wine. Its tasting notes describe “ripe strawberry, dark cherry and flint on the nose, with a generous weight on the palate and a round, refreshing finish,” the brand's words for what it calls a “super” rosé. The same page cites a 98-point score from JustWinePoints and a Silver Medal, “Highly Recommended, Best Buy” rating from Tastings.com, both claims made on the brand's own page, not independently confirmed here.

Our call: pick it if a confirmed single-grape Merlot rose with stated technical numbers and a named winery of record is what you want; Executive Bev's own page for this Clairet lists the grape, the alcohol and sugar readings, the winery, Bordeaux Families, and two competition results. Pass if you are weighing the shopper score; most of the wines we track average higher than this one's early reading, and that count is still a beginning rather than a settled record.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.