Four Cousins Natural Sweet Rose
£11.49
£15.32 per litre · incl. 20% VAT
In Stock — 16 bottles available
Sunshine in a glass, and no apologies for it. This blush-pink rosé from the Robertson Valley pours fragrant and fruity, with strawberries, peaches and a soft muscat lift that makes it dangerously easy to enjoy. Chill it down, pour it generously, and let it carry you through long lunches, summer evenings, and every casual gathering in between.
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Our Verdict
We list a lot of serious, structured South African wines, and then we list this, because sometimes you just want something fun. Four Cousins Sweet Rosé is honest about what it is: an unpretentious, fruit-driven crowd-pleaser that won't break the bank or demand much thought. It's the bottle to bring to a barbecue, pour for friends who say they don't really like wine, or send to a homesick South African expat who'll recognise the label instantly. One of our easiest recommendations for anyone wanting sunshine in a glass.
Tasting Notes
A bright blush in the glass, with a perfumed nose of Muscat grape, garden roses and ripe strawberry. The palate is unashamedly sweet but never cloying, peach, tropical fruit and a hint of raisin glide across a soft, silky texture, with juicy cranberry tartness keeping things lively. The finish is gentle and fragrant, fruit lingering long after the sip. Easy, fragrant, immediately likeable.
Ripe Strawberry Sweetness
Juicy summer strawberries lead the palate, layered with cranberry and red cherry, the kind of fruit that needs no introduction.
Muscat Perfume
Unmistakable Muscat aromatics give the nose a heady, grapey lift, joined by gentle floral notes that feel like a summer garden.
Peach and Tropical Fruit
A burst of ripe peach and tropical fruit fills the mid-palate, adding sunshine warmth to the wine's easy sweetness.
About This Wine
Here's a wine that doesn't take itself too seriously, and that's exactly the point. Four Cousins Natural Sweet Rosé is South Africa's go-to crowd-pleaser, the bottle that gets opened when the sun's out, the music's on, and nobody wants to think too hard about what they're drinking. It's fragrant, fruity, gently sweet, and built to be shared.
The glass tells you everything: a flame-pink blush, lifted floral perfume, and a nose full of ripe strawberries and cherries with that telltale muscat sparkle. The palate is generous and juicy, tropical fruit, peaches, a whisper of raisin, with a sweetness that's more friendly than cloying, finishing silky and clean. This is the Robertson Valley doing what it does best: aromatic, sun-ripened grapes turned into wine you actually want to drink.
Serve it properly cold, ideally over ice if it's a hot afternoon. It's the perfect sun-downer, a brilliant match for spicy Thai or Indian dishes where its sweetness tames the chilli, and a natural partner for fresh strawberry pavlova or a bowl of summer berries with cream. Picnics, garden parties, the first proper barbecue of the year, this is the bottle.
Made by the Retief family at Van Loveren in the Western Cape, South Africa's largest family-owned winery. We deliver across the UK, and it's the kind of wine that always disappears faster than you expect, so maybe order two.
Food Pairing
This is a wine that thrives with a touch of spice and a lot of sunshine. Pour it alongside a fragrant Thai green curry or a Cape Malay chicken, the sweetness tames the heat beautifully. It also shines with summer puddings: think strawberry pavlova, fresh berries with cream, or fruit salad. Or simply chill it down and sip it on its own.
- —Thai green curry or mild Indian korma
- —Cape Malay chicken curry with yellow rice
- —Strawberry pavlova with whipped cream
- —Charcuterie and soft cheese picnic board
- —Fresh fruit salad with summer berries
How to Serve
Temperature
Serve well chilled, around 8°C. An hour in the fridge or twenty minutes in an ice bucket does the job.
Decanting
No decanting needed, this is a fresh, fragrant style that wants to go straight from bottle to glass. Decanting would only dull the Muscat perfume and bright fruit aromatics.
Glass
A standard white wine glass works perfectly, concentrating the floral, grapey nose without losing the fruit lift.
Ageing & Cellaring
Drink now, while the Muscat perfume and bright primary fruit are in full song. This is built for immediate enjoyment, not the cellar, aim to open within twelve to eighteen months of buying for the freshest, most fragrant experience.
The Land
Limestone-rich soils along the Breede River give Robertson its signature lift and aromatic clarity. Warm, dry days build ripe fruit and natural sweetness, while cool mountain-cooled nights preserve the floral perfume and freshness, exactly the conditions Muscat needs to sing.
The Winemaking
Made in an unwooded style to keep everything bright, fragrant and fresh, no oak, no fuss, just fruit. The grapes are picked at ripeness for their natural sweetness and aromatic lift, then fermented cool to lock in those signature Muscat perfumes and the strawberry-and-cherry character. Fermentation is stopped early to preserve a gentle, juicy sweetness rather than letting it run dry. The result is a soft, easy-drinking rosé that lands somewhere between a light dessert wine and a summer sipper.
The Western Cape Region
Le Domaine draws its fruit from vineyards scattered across the Western Cape, from coastal sites cooled by Atlantic breezes to warmer inland slopes, all planted between 50 and 300 metres above sea level. This broad sourcing is deliberate. By blending components from different microclimates, the cellar builds a consistent house style that balances the crisp acidity of cooler sites with the ripe generosity of warmer ones. It's the Western Cape's extraordinary diversity captured in a single glass.
About the Producer
Van Loveren
Van Loveren is a name that turns up on a lot of UK wine shelves, and it's worth knowing the story behind it. This is a family business in the truest sense: the Retief family has farmed this corner of the Robertson Valley since 1937, and today it's the third and fourth generations tending the same vines their grandparents planted.
Robertson sits inland from Cape Town, in a valley shaped by ancient limestone deposits and fed by irrigation from the Breede River. It's not a region built on prestige or scarcity. It's built on consistency, on reliable sunshine and mineral-rich soils that produce generous harvests year after year, and Van Loveren is its clearest expression: wines made to be opened without ceremony, not saved for a special occasion.
What sets Van Loveren apart isn't complexity, it's approachability done properly and at real scale. This is one of South Africa's largest family-owned wineries, yet it hasn't lost the personal touch. Blends and decisions are still made around a family table rather than a boardroom one, and that shows in the wines: warm, fruity, unpretentious, exactly what you want when you fancy something easy and dependable.
We stock Van Loveren because it fills a genuinely useful role. For UK drinkers who assume South African wine always means serious, structured reds built for the cellar, Van Loveren is the friendly counterpoint, proof that the Cape also makes wine purely for enjoyment. The Four Cousins range has become something of a phenomenon in this respect, a soft, sociable wine that has introduced more people to South African wine than almost anything else we sell.
Don't come to Van Loveren looking for austere minerality or heavy oak. Come for wines that are generous and easy-drinking, the kind that suit a Friday evening more than a formal dinner. They're a good reminder that South African wine isn't one single style, it's a whole spectrum, and Van Loveren sits happily at the warm, welcoming end of it.