Taste Like A Pro, Rosé Wines...

Summer is around the corner and it is time to consider the wine list for the hot days ahead.  Not surprisingly, Rosé wines, those made in the pink color, are super trendy right now. Throughout this series, we have taken the view that style, or the personality of the wine, and quality, its degree of excellence, are two fundamentally different issues when it comes to scoring wines.  This is why it is imperative to understand how key production methods affect style so that quality can be fairly evaluated. This issue looks at what influence Rosés.

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Latest Study Guide - Rosé Wines...

Here my latest Study Guide, this time on Rosé wines: http://bit.ly/1aIjWkL. Actually the most difficult table to compile of them all...

I was surprised to learn how many styles of Rosé wines there are in the world.  Huge number of styles.  Also, it seems that there are not too much agreement as to the vocabulary of the winemaking process in various websites.  Is Rosé production a trade secret more closely guarded than anything else?

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