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...every summer we taste a few rose's to find one to be the house wine we can enjoy outside by the pool.
This year we tried four from $10 to $17, all French.
The clear winner was Domaine De Fontsaints Gris de Gris @$13.
It had just enough bright fruit to balance the dryness.
Highly recommended.
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I have been trying Rose wine this year
and enjoying them. It has been may years
since I had one. One of my favorites is
Chateau Bonnet. It is a Bordeaux Merlot
Cab Rose with 12.5% alcohol. Costco has it
for $11.99 a bottle.
Edits: 07/11/11
...I had tried a couple from Costco which didn't thrill me.
One was Coppola's Sofia, maybe last year.
I'll look for the one you mention.
I have yet to try one of his wines that I've enjoyed. I gave my Wife a bottle of the Sophia sparkling wine, I think it came with a straw. Horrible wine.But I haven't tried one of his high dollar wines. And I doubt I will.
I did enjoy a few of the Inglenook wines back in th 70's.
Edits: 07/11/11
I am also not a fan of Coppola wines.
I'm with you guys.I tried the "Directors Cut" Cab Sav and it just didn't cut it,no pun intended.
What's the alcohol? Rose's made by bleeding tend to be either high alcohol or watered back quite a bit. Of course in France they are generally picking reds earlier I would guess.
Yeah, when I started drinking rose's it was Tavels and Anjous. It was a given that they were light in style and light in alcohol. Then a couple of years ago I had a bottle of Miner Rose' at a luncheon. Got up and felt a bit tipsy. That's when I looked at the bottle and saw something like 15% alcohol.
Why?
Why? You'd have to ask the winemaker (or the marketing dept).
I looked at the spec sheet for the 2010 and it was picked on the ripe side for a Rose'. It also says that 30% of the wine came from
bleeding. So that 30% came from grapes picked at even higher sugar (the 2008 version of the Sangio was picked at 26.8). So if that juice wasn't watered back..there you go.
I also noticed that the acid numbers are more in line for a red wine than a white ( I consider Rose' to be a white wine by design).
Honestly, just by looking at numbers, I would guess that it's not a very enjoyable Rose'...but numbers can lie I guess. Did you like the wine?
When I looked at the numbers for the red version of the Sangio, I noticed that the acid numbers
were also a little anemic for Sangio....have you ever tried that one?
In the end the wine is high in alcohol because of a winemakers decision. It's possible that the grapes didn't achieve proper flavors until it reached a higher brix level, and that's why it was picked so late. It's possible that the resulting wine is part of the winemakers "style"
In any case, he or she could of altered nature with a little bit of water and acid, but chose not to.
...high powered zins @ around 15%, I don't pay attention to the percentage of alcohol in a wine unless it stands out and I can taste it.
Like with some recent pinot noirs.
The most important thing to me is the flavors and the balance.
In this case the rose' is 12.5%.
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