ROSÉ WINE - Great Summer Wine!

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Rosé wine is perfect wine for hot summer. They are pretty, clear pink in color, light in body, but packed with summer fruit flavor (strawberry, raspberry, watermelon etc.) and crispy acidity on palate (summer food friendly; composed salad, pasta with light sauce, simple pizza, even for dessert like lemon tart.) and they are having a big momentum in America.

Some of them are nicely sweet but many dry versions of rosé wines are made with different red wine grapes by each different appellation (region) from around globe today. One of new from California is made from expensive Pinot Noir grape. They are a bit pricey but worth a try, but in general many imported rosé are reasonably priced.

Well chilled rosé wine is very refreshing taste and nicely summer food friendly. I am having a glass of rosé wine everyday as soon as I come home from work. And I often make rosé spritzer with adding a lemon slice and fresh mint leaves, making a bit like mojito (I cannot run out rosé in my refrigerator in summer time). It is very refreshing and tasty!

Dry Rosé wine from Provence, South of France has been known and famous for many years, made with few different grapes, but it wasn’t many brands available in California until recent years, plus it was also a bit pricey if you could find one in wine shop. However welcome news is that many Provencal rosé are available in ordinary large super markets in this year among with many others. I see that my local Trader Joe’s carries at least a half dozen among many others, as well as at Safeway market. I was a bit surprised that Safeway store near my home carries almost 50 different rosé wines from around world. They filled shelves, top to bottom include California (of course) in this year. It is something that I had never seen it before.

It is also Provencal rosé wines are easy to spot in wine shop, because many their rosé wines have independently, different unique bottle shape. Most of those winery are small scale production, but they are quite artistic. No wonder many great artists have lived there (e.g. Picasso, Miró, Cézanne in the past) and keep attracting many young artists to live and work there (great weather, beautiful sea, delicious food and wine).

My current two favorite this summer are, De Mont, which has very elegant taste and it got everything Provence rosé wine character can offers; light, crispy and summer fruits flavor ($8.99 at Trader Joe’s). Magique is slightly sweet but very tasty and good wine. I like it a lot ($5.99 at Trader Joe’s). I also enjoyed Loma Negra rosé  from Chile made with Cabernet and Merlot blend ($4.99) and Emma Reichart rosé from Germany made with Pinot Noir ($4.99). Trader Joe’s carries 3 dozens rosé wine this summer, and their price is wonderful, more than just affordable!

Anyway dry rosé wine’s popularity is very obvious that a clerk at Trader Joe’s told me they cannot keep up stocking this year. I should go to check out Rosé wine at Wholefoods market this weekend, wondering that what they have stocked.

Here is a good site of Provence wine information. http://www.terroir-france.com/wine/provence_map.htm

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