While rosé wine's popularity might have cooled, these bottle picks from Chicago sommeliers will have you swooning all summer.
Rose wine tasting in New York in 2010. Beloved, belittled and often taken for granted, this summery wine is rarely judged on its merits.
Is this sudden sluggishness evidence of #lavieenrosé fatigue? Or more indelibly, has #roséallday simply jumped the shark?With so much emphasis on the lifestyle of rosé, “things got a little chaotic out there with rosé culture,” says Alex Cuper, beverage director of El Che Steakhouse & Bar in the West Loop. Pale pink, summer-water styles of rosé have been enormously successful from a commercial perspective.
Much of rosé's problems stem from public misconceptions. Rosé, unlike any other category of wine, is still marketed as a seasonal wine best enjoyed at picnics or poolside as an aperitif. Erroneous notions associating pale color with quality contribute to vast quantities of rosé stripped of their color — along with aroma, flavor and complexity — via fining and filtration to meet consumer expectations.
The intensely concentrated, almost ruby-hued wines of Tavel or Bandol offer a depth of rich, ripe berry and cherry flavors accented with hints of smoke, earth and peppery spice. Meanwhile, “Austrian and German rosés,” Prodan suggests, “are definitely on the more savory, herbaceous side of the spectrum.”
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