Rose wines are great on a hot day. And the nice part is you don't have to spend a lot of money. Cheap rose wines are almost just as good as expensive ones.

I'm okay with this.

biatches love pink wine.

Ech. Not a big fan of them, although admittedly I haven't tried many. The ones I have tried I didn't like.

Rosé are red, pinot noir are black,
And I forget the rest but your mother's a whore!

Approves.

i especially love it with a pair of teenie cut-offs and a mesh tank

/socks with sandals

At first I was all ready to biatch about them, but then I was thinking: Mrs. Taschen doesn't go for whites, but reds on a hot day aren't right either...maybe it's time to give them another shot.

Didn't even know rose wines were out of style...

Need to get another case or two.

I use it to make spritzers sometimes... You know, when I want to drink something different but don't want to get hammered over the course of six hours.

Rose isn't wine, it's what they hosed out the vats with.

Satanic_Hamster: Didn't even know rose wines were out of style...

Need to get another case poly-vinyl bag or two.

I'll wait until it comes in a box.

This article seems the opposite of amusing.

ladyfortuna: I use it to make spritzers sometimes... You know, when I want to drink something different but don't want to get hammered over the course of six hours.

White wine spritzer!
White wine spritzer!
White wine spritzer!

So they're saying they've got a rosé future?

Rosès started becoming popular in DC two summers ago. Good summer wines, lots of good values.

I prefer champipple.

PC LOAD LETTER: Might as well drink a wine cooler if you are having rosé

Why, just because you've only tried Arbor Mist?

I don't know why everyone is so biased against them, or think that they are only capable of having one flavor profile. There is no intrinsic reason why a rosè has to be overly sweet. Their coloring comes from the same thing that separates white wines from red ones: the skins. And grape skins do NOT make a wine sweeter. If anything, rosè wines should have one of the biggest varieties of flavor profiles since they can choose to incorporate the tannins in the skins to a greater or lesser extent. If you like white wine, and you like red wine, and hate rosè wine, it is only because you've picked out crappy wines.

Endive Wombat: Isn't Rosé just white wine that has been allowed to soak in the skins for a bit?

Or a red wine that hasn't been allowed to soak in the skins for as long.

In the big jug with the wicker bottom? Ah, childhood memories...

Rose wine comes back every summer, how is this news? Because the northeast is actually having a real summer this year?

Anyway, I only like a rose in extra dry sparkling wine, where the tannins give some extra body and mouthfeel.

Gawdzila: PC LOAD LETTER: Might as well drink a wine cooler if you are having rosé

Why, just because you've only tried Arbor Mist?

I don't know why everyone is so biased against them, or think that they are only capable of having one flavor profile. There is no intrinsic reason why a rosè has to be overly sweet. Their coloring comes from the same thing that separates white wines from red ones: the skins. And grape skins do NOT make a wine sweeter. If anything, rosè wines should have one of the biggest varieties of flavor profiles since they can choose to incorporate the tannins in the skins to a greater or lesser extent. If you like white wine, and you like red wine, and hate rosè wine, it is only because you've picked out crappy wines.

Most winemakers that do bother to make a rose have it as a blend of whatever's left over after bottling their main stock, which gives it completely random flavors depending on what was being bottled at the time, and there's not enough body (which is, let's admit it, the whole attraction of a rose on a hot summer day, just like Bud Light) to bother aging, so it's automatically sweeter than more aged wine. As long as people aren't willing to pay for it, it's going to stay that way.

I have been to one or two wineries that actually had a specialized, moderately expensive stock of Rose varieties, that actually pulled some interesting flavor out of them, but one winemaker told me that it was an experiment he probably wouldn't repeat - people seem to want all Rose to taste like Gallo white zin, more's the pity.

Spass_Taschen: At first I was all ready to biatch about them, but then I was thinking: Mrs. Taschen doesn't go for whites, but reds on a hot day aren't right either...maybe it's time to give them another shot.

Try really light body reds, like Italian wines. Chianti/Sangiovese are perfect for hot days.

I've lived in France for the last 29 years, and I can tell you that rosé has never gone out of style here - largely because the main appelations (Bandol, Tavel, Cotes de Provence) are not the sugary, syrupy stuff found elsewhere. "Dry as a bone" may be a bit of an exaggeration, but they *are* palate-sparing and very versatile food-wise. Cotes de Provence sell the most (and they are the cheapest) and are drinkable; better are Bandol and Tavel. They have nothing in common with the (too maligned, IMO) "blush wines" found in the US. (BTW, I enjoy a bottle of White Zin from time to time when I'm in the US).

Nothing gay about rosé. When it's +90F outside and your house doesn't have A/C (as is the case almost everywhere in France), you unroll the awning and put the bottle of rosé in the ice bucket, and then get hammered, followed by a long afternoon nap.

keylock71: Eh... for a light Summer wine, I prefer Vinho Verde.

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Heh. Having gone through half a case of the Casal Garcia rosé already this summer, I say, "why not have both?"



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White zin is a crime against taste and humanity.

foxyshadis: people seem to want all Rose to taste like Gallo white zin, more's the pity

I think it's less that "people" in general want that, and more like their standard audience does. They need to expand the audience.
People who buy them expect them to taste that way, and people who don't buy them also expect them to taste that way. Marketing a "real" wine to someone who wants to drink Arbor Mist is bound to fail. To change the perception somebody has to bother to make something outside of expectation -- which is perfectly possible to do -- and then get a new audience to try it. That last part is the trick, I suppose.

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Damn you! I was heading over to Google for the TRM cover!!

Shakes fist.

OMG, the wine is pink, it'll make me gay!

Seriously, do blind people have these problems?

Drink what you like and tell everyone to go fark themselves.

Canei? Yes you can!

Slug down a bottle like an '80's sorority girl.

/NTTAWWT

When Mad Dog comes out with a cheap bottle of rose, let me know.

Rosés bring me right back to summertimes at our family cottage, when my aunts would get silly drinking their "pinkies" on the beach, and my cousins and I who thought it looked like KoolAid would try to steal some.

pink colored wine is too easy a target for derision...it CAN be the perfect note, but is it equally hard to find good.
the biggest problem is simply the color, methinks.

My last rosé was some Zinfandel. Smelled like strawberries and tasted like strawberry juice with more sugar in it like a coke. I'll stay with some dry german Riesling or dry french reds.

/honestly: I'm drinking some cider right now...
//...and a nice scotch, later...

Ixnay on the inhovay erdevay.

If word gets out how great this stuff is when served well chilled on a sweltering day the supply will disappear.

It really is the one wine that you can truly chug.

/ so hot out
// chug chug chug

Beringer White Zinfandel triggers off a migraine headache every time. Guaranteed. I won't touch it anymore. Not even sturdy reds do that to me. What the hell is in that stuff?

Oh ...and you can pick up a 6 pack of it at Costco for under 10 bucks.

cochlear: Beringer White Zinfandel triggers off a migraine headache every time. Guaranteed. I won't touch it anymore. Not even sturdy reds do that to me. What the hell is in that stuff?

Oh ...and you can pick up a 6 pack of it at Costco for under 10 bucks.

Could be whatever phosphates they put in it (*note, I am a winemaking noob, but that's what I've been told). Lordfortuna hardly drinks any wine because most of them give him headaches, which GIS said was probably some kind of allergy to the phosphates. IANAD, and he won't go to one, so that's the best I can guess.

The highest rated Rose wines, are often the one that more closely fit the flavor profiles of their red or white counterparts. In other words, why bother with them at all, just got for the real thing.

gerrymander: keylock71: Eh... for a light Summer wine, I prefer Vinho Verde.

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Heh. Having gone through half a case of the Casal Garcia rosé already this summer, I say, "why not have both?"

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Finally something to protect us from UFOs!

I like rosè on a hot day

This stops being acceptable once you're out of college.
see also: natty, beast, keystone, md 20/20,

HELL yeah.

LemSkroob: The highest rated Rose wines, are often the one that more closely fit the flavor profiles of their red or white counterparts. In other words, why bother with them at all, just got for the real thing.

A nice bottle of rose is $15, while a nice red will be $25?

cochlear: Beringer White Zinfandel triggers off a migraine headache every time. Guaranteed. I won't touch it anymore. Not even sturdy reds do that to me. What the hell is in that stuff?

Oh ...and you can pick up a 6 pack of it at Costco for under 10 bucks.

Weird. My mom's prone to migraines and has no issues with White Zin. Can't remember whether she prefers Beringer or Sutter Home, though. She also doesn't touch red wine. (Nor do I, for fear of triggering off a migraine of my own.)

I don't touch white zin anymore, though, because it has that bland, buttery thing going on. Ugh. Give me a Michigan Riesling any day.