Rosé Wine
In recent years, rosé has found a real niche in the wine market. Traditionally thought of as poor in quality, rosé is now biting back with some superb offerings that will tempt even the harshest wine critic.
How Rosé is Produced
Making rosé wine is not a simple as taking a bottle of white and a bottle of red and mixing them together! The process for producing rosé wine starts in exactly the same way as for red wine. However, the juice is separated from the skins at a much earlier point, so that the wine has only a hint of color. From this point onwards, rosé is made in exactly the same way as white wine.
Of course, you can always cheat and simply mix red and white wine but the result will not be nearly as good.
Serving Rose
Rosé is a great choice of wine if you want to compromise between white and red wine. Many people, who don't like red wine, enjoy rosé, and similarly those who don't like white wine also often enjoy rosé. Rosé really is a diplomatic wine!
Normally served chilled, rosé is a wonderful wine to drink with almost any food. In general, rosé is a light and refreshing wine so is not always the perfect match for heavier meat dishes.
However, as is the nature with this wine, different grape blends produce fuller bodied rosés which can make a brilliant accompaniment for the heaviest of meat dishes!
Pink Champagne
Pink champagne is a lot less synthetic than you would think. Good champagne, and sparkling wine, for that matter, is a mix of the red grape pinot noir and the white grape chardonnay. If the skins of the pinot noir grapes are allowed to remain intact, during the fermentation process, then you will have pink champagne! Looks and tastes wonderful!
Rosé is improving in quality and popularity all the time. Why not give it a try, you'll be pleasantly surprised