Tag: Rosé wines

Rose for Summer

When we want to avoid cooking to keep the kitchen cool, dry rose wines are among the most perfect hot-weather refreshments to accompany salads and other uncooked summer meals. Memorial Day is the unofficial beginning of summer, so today we look at pink wines, which have been, for roughly the last decade, all the rage…


Rose Wine Types

With the advent of warmer weather, rose wines have become a hot ticket with wine lovers, particularly those who want something cold for patios on the warmest of days. This is a pleasing way to beat the heat, not to mention how well dry pink wines work well with finger foods like cheeses, nuts, crackers,…


The Red White

Don’t be blue now that the Fourth of July holiday is over, because the season is just beginning for red white. Warmer weather is the perfect time to break out dry rosé wines, which is admittedly an artificial way of suggesting that there is actually a best time to drink pink. Anytime is fine. I…


Pink Wine Season Is Upon Us: The 10 Best New Rosé Bottles, Rated

By Elin McCoy From Bloomberg News When the temperature soars and the sun is shining at 7 p.m., you know rosé days are underway again. What people call the “happy wine” has always been something to sip without taking it, or yourself, too seriously. Rosé is about embracing fun, the beach, day-drinking and personal style,…


Pink Takes Its (Rightful) Place

There was a time not terribly long ago when winemakers had a deep, dark secret: The wines they were drinking were made just for themselves. One man, who had made some pretty beefy and concentrated red wines, told me in 2007 that he made a light rose just for himself. He laughed and called it…