Five Rose Wines to Drink This Summer is your beginning guide for the Rosé season. Why did we pick these wines?
Because they are made in a different style determined by the wine region they came from and the grape variety they made off. So you’ll get a chance to find your favorite style.
Domaine Collotte Marsannay Rosé 2020
This 100% Pinot Noir Rosé comes from the Burgundy appellation, famous for its Pinots. The wine comprised 75% direct press and 25% 36-hour maceration (soaking) of the fresh-pressed juice with skins that resulted in a vivid strawberry pink color.
The wine profiles are led by cranberry and lingonberry and complemented by red apples and nectarine on the nose and the palate.
Chateau de Manissy Tavel Tete de Cuvee Rose 2019
Chateau de Manissy Rosé comes from the Tavel appellation of Rhone Valley of France, which specializes in dry Rosé wine. It is a blend of organically grown Grenache, Clairette, and Cinsault.
The profile is quite different from Marsannay Rosé, while it is similarly strawberry pink color. The Cornelian and Morello cherry aromas are followed by pink nectarine, red cherry, and cranberry with a pleasant peach skin astringency on the palate.
Domaine Les Aphillanthes Cotes-du-Rhone Rosé 2020
Domaine Les Aphillanthes is a great comparisson to Chateau de Manissy because it also comes from Rhone and made from biodynamically grown 50% Grenache, 40% Cinsault, 7% Mourvèdre, 3% Counoise.
Although it’s primarily based on Grenache and Cinsault, you won’t mistake it for the previous wine.
An enticing peach-cherry-lemon and beeswax aroma flow into nectarine, sour cherry, and minerality flavors.
Bodegas Bleda Castillo de Jumilla Rosado 2020
Castillo de Jumilla Rosado is a Spanish Rosé made from Monastrell grape. In a way, it’s related to a previous wine because Mourvèdre is a French synonym for Monastrell.
The strawberry pink color is a preview of the flavor profile. On the nose, Rosado is somewhat savory with peach and herbal notes. Fresh peach is joined by strawberry, grassy, and slightly astringent almond notes on the palate. This wine is asking for Spanish tapas. We wonder why?
L’Ecole Grenache Rosé 2020
It was fun to compare Rhone’s Rosé wines with L’Ecole Grenache Rose 2020 because they are all made with the same grape. The main difference is that L’Ecole Rosé is made from 100% Grenache grown in
Horse Heaven Hills area of Washington state.
The cherry, red flowers, and grassy-green notes come through from aromas to flavors. The interesting red apple and slightly savory flavors complement the berries on the palate.
Food Pairings
Rosé is forgiving and lets you experiment with food more than any other wine. We pick rosé whenever we have all kinds of food choices on the table, and we are not sure what is the main dish we would like to pair the wine with.
However, it doesn’t mean we don’t have a perfect pairing for rosé.
Try our Strawberry Goad Cheese Bites and see if this would satisfy your palate before you move to more sophisticated dishes.
More Rosé Choices
We explore rosé wine choices yearly and analyze how the Rosé segment is developing and changing our perception of this winemaking style. If you are curious about rosé, read more in our earlier posts:
So what unites all these Rosé wines? They are all different despite the similarities between some of them. It’s hard to compare them because they have distinct styles. Depending on the day and food, we might like one over another.
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