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Enjoy Rosé Wine, The Style Than Never Stops Trending
Enjoy Rosé Wine, The Style Than Never Stops Trending
There’s nothing trendier than posting a picture of yourself with a glass of rosé in hand. Rosé is the quintessential summer thirst-quencher, but rosé is not only an easy sipper, but it also has finesse, elegance and great versatility on the table.
There was a time when rosé was considered a second-tier wine style, but those days are long gone. The quality of pink wine is better than ever, and the wines are nothing less than the very picture of pleasantry.
Here’s all you need to know about rosé wine.
How is Rosé Made Anyway?
Rosé, which literally means ‘pink,’ is an ancient style as old as whites and reds, and perhaps even older.
The first wines in history were made with red and white grapes picked and crushed together. The resulting wine was paler compared to modern reds; these were the first rosé wines.
The practise of diluting wine with water, popularised in Ancient Greece, rendered, in essence, pink wine too. Today, though, wine laws worldwide forbid the dilution of red wines to make rosé and producers can’t combine red and white wines to make a pink wine, with the notable exception of Champagne.
To make pink wine, you need red grapes, but instead of leaching out all the colour potential in the grapes, they’re crushed and pressed quickly, allowing only the faintest pigments to taint the grape juice. There’s lots of skill involved.
The barely tainted grape juice is fermented in temperature-controlled tanks and, more often than not, bottled without ageing.