Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 30/09-29/12/2020 (Page 9)

the drop why this blush drink is entering a class of its own – and making even serious wine aficionados take notice this blush-hued wine had been relegated to sweet style that was its prevailing iteration in the "serious" wine-drinking community people did not choose rosé; it was considered something made from grapes that weren't good enough to make a decent red fast-forward a decade and the pink drink is a worldwide winner wine would quickly slide back into a rose-tinted wide-ranging appeal and increasing premium- isation - and with a hint of summer in the air that the earliest red wines were actually closer in appearance to today's roses than they were to our reds because primitive winemaking techniques didn't include lengthy maceration the process that brings out the tannins and contact is what it's all about rosé can be made from practically any red wine grape; the colour is down to how long the be anything from hours to days and is wholly the juice begins to take on the specific colour the juice is allowed to ferment the provence region in south-eastern france is regarded as the rosé capital of the focus on rosé and is home to the centre de recherche et d'expérimentation sur le vin of wine now sitting at a staggering 14 million provence rosé is generally made from a mix vintagecellars.com.au