love the rosé action! really dug discovering Susana Balboa’s Crios Malbec rosé last year and Tegernseerhof from Austria (a bit too sweet by itself for me, needs food). And Bandols rule!

Rose = Awesome.

Las Rocas…and the turkey flat was good.

I like Rose wine, only tried a few but liked them, I have a Rose wine tasting this coming wednesday night so that should be interesting!!!!

Gary!!
I love some Rose wine..but I have to admit, I dont often think of Rose as a “go to” wine.. This summer I will try some more!
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Love the description of this one at WL. “Lurid pink”…
QOTD – Not much experience with rose. Might just check this one out.

Very pleasant Friday episode. I love rosé. I have it often, and yet not near as often as I should or would like to. This episode makes me want to have cheese and rosé, so I will. Rosé is definitely a gift to the wine world. It’s quite unique, it’s distinguished, it’s very varied, like the grenache that you just had. I very often open a bottle of rosé for dinner, but I will do it much more often from now on.

Although I’ve had some decent rose wines, I still lean towards a white in the hot summer days.

QotD: Aside from the “chick wine” stigma of pink wines, I’m not a big fan of the dry pinks. Although, I just had a Krupp pink and thought it was great.

QOTD: Interesting reading the other Vayniacs comments. For the longest time, I wouldn’t touch any rose’ wine. Pink was White Zin and that poisoned me for a LONG time. And then I was at a wine tasting dinner several years ago and one of the ladies who was a proprietor from Mas da la Dame in Provence was there and she had a dry rose that we tried and I liked it so much that I bought several bottles. In Barcelona last summer, I again tried several rose’ wines and they were all very nice. I think I like them better than most white wines because they seem more serious to me, if that makes any sense, than many white wines.

QOTD: It’s hard to find anything but white zinfadel at most of the liquor stores up here. I had a white merlot once and thought it was pretty amazing, but I don’t remember the name. So, based on what I’ve tried, I’m a fan of rose, and I look forward to trying many more this summer.

WORD: I love rose in the summer. BBQ and Rose are a great combo. A porch wine my wife and I can both enjoy (she normally is a sav blanc only kind of gal.) long Island is making some decent Roses as well. North Form vineyards have some nice options but I’ve never seen in the store.

Here’s the deal – I’ve never had a GREAT Rose. Lots of good but no great. So it tends to be for times when I’m not focused on the wine. Nothing wrong with that, just saying…

I love the Etude Rose – it’s a red wine drinker’s rose. Awesome. I also just had Miner Rosato – beautiful & floral. Great stuff.

Overall, I love rose’s. They are the perfect apertif & porch wine. Especially great with food.

QOTD: I am into crisp/clean/dry wines, so I love roses.

LOVE rose wine!!
I have bought about 20 different types from all over the world for this hot florida summer–so far both the similarities and differences have both been fun and astounding.
Have had a couple of GREAT ones from USA recently—a tip from WLTV past episode, but different variety–the Breggo Rose; and also Lagier-Meredith from mt. veeder napa valley.
But…….it is impossible to go wrong with the traditional French rose; from whatever region you like.

My first post, so I guess I am no longer a lurker! I thoroughly enjoy your insight & enthusiasm. Your show has certainly helped me reacquaint myself with the all important FUN FACTOR.
My preference is reds but I have recently found Rose to be wonderful new addition.

One of the nicest Roses I am had is from an artisan winery, Channing Daughters. Their 2007 Cabernet Franc Rosato Croteau is just delightful while sitting on the deck with your feet up. YUM.

Gary

Rosé, for me, is the quintessential summer wine. I got hooked from spending my summers in France, where from June to September everyone seems to forget that any other type of wine exists. You can walk into any supermarket during the summer and rosé will be 70+% of their inventory.

While in France in July and August (and to a certain extent in the US from memorial day to labor day), it’s rosé for lunch and dinner all the time. I tend to stick to basic Cotes de Provence for the day-to-day. The Bandol region makes great (better?) rosés, with Tempier being the best one for nicer meals (Domaine Ott is the most commercial and overpriced producer in Bandol, but not bad at all). Janasse (the great CdP producer in the Southern Rhone) also makes a very interesting rosé.

One of the few exceptions I make while in the South of France is the very pleasant white from Cassis (a little beach town near Marseille), but I’ve never been able to find one in the US. Great body, decent (low) acidity – the best partner for a bouillabaisse (the local seafood stew).

We’ve been drinking rose’s for several years. Agree with Flavio they’re a great summer wine, but we drink them off and on all year since they work with so many foods.

up until about 6 months ago I never drank rose and I had a bad feeling about it. Cheap, sweet roses gave the pink a bad reputation, which definitely curbed me from trying them.

Then I finally tried a french rose and I’m a total convert…with thai food? Definitely rose. Pizza? Oh yes…I’m totally into roses and as summer heats up I’ll definitely be drinking a lot in the next few months

Got turned on to rose when I lived in Ontario, by Malivoire Ladybug Rose. Very nice, can’t remember the grapes, definitely not grenache. Nowdays I am a big fan of grenache, and roses based on grenache are just the thing for sitting outside in hot texas weather.

Dave.

There’s a time and a place for rose… and summer time on the patio is it! I love Kim Crawford Pansy! Rose. Yummy!

’06?? Wasn’t this released a year and a half ago? I would think the ’07 would be best now.

QOTD: I don’t mind them but I have not had very many….they are not as available in So.Texas…plus I prefer Champaign when it gets hot…..

QOTD: When I was 15-16, in 1964-65, and living in Spain, I preferred rose (called clarete-meaning clear) to red. Then in law school in the US I tried them again and found them to be sweet, cheap, and not to my liking. They were not at all as I remembered them, a little lighter than the reds and a little fruitier than the whites, which tended to be steely and sharp. I liked both the roses and the whites. Consequently I have been afraid to try what is sold here. I guess I need to try again.

I was away for a couple of days, but in case you look back at this comment:
I LOVE rose wines when it’s warm out. I drink more rose in the summer than my girlfriend can stand (and she does like some of them). I am hooked on some of the roses from the south of France, but I’ve had good ones from several other places. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m going to go get some roses today or tomorrow. Can’t wait.

QOTD Nothing wrong with the pink wines, In spring and summer i tend to drink them as an alternative as well havent had any too great so far but i will be sure to keep trying them