Rosé Wine

Tanners French Rose

John — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:42:27 +0000

Today, the Telegraph recommended a French Rose from Shewsbury based Tanners. Here’s what was said about the Tanners French Rose NV:

“A little gem… fresh and fruity …perfect fare for late summer picnics”

It’s currently available at Tanners here at £6.50 a bottle

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Tanners French Rose

Rose Wine Offers

John — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:37:13 +0000

This weeks Saturday Telegraph included a feaure on a range of recommended wines, including these three bottles of Rose:

2008 Shiraz/Touriga Nacional Rose.

A Portugese Rose that apparantly has weight and character with a creamy palate that’s packed with strawberries. Only £3.99 at Tesco until July 21.

2008 Montepulcians d’Abruzzo Cerasuolo

This Italian wine has plenty of bright-red fruits and contains flavours of dried herbs and spice. £6.99 from M&S or choose this case deal.

2007 Bel Ami Rose

This French rose was reviewed as satisfying, lazy, afternoon drink. Sounds like my kind of drink! £7.99 from Majestic (two bottle purchase price).

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Rose Wine Offers

Rosé Wins Reprieve

John — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:17:44 +0000

I mentioned last month about European Commission plans to allow the mixing of red and white wines to make Rosé. Well in a brief article in The Telegraph its reported that those plans have been dropped.

Quite right too in my opinion.

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Rosé Wins Reprieve

Chateau de Berne Rosé

John — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:21:04 +0000

Mark Dixon owns 40% of the outsourced office company Regus that operates around the world. Dixon, who is from Essex and used to be a burger-flipper is now a very rich man who is developing an interest in rosé wine.

A couple of years ago he bought the Chateua de Berne vineyard in Provence and he is now of the leading producers of Cotes de Provence rosé. The Cotes de Provence wine region is a large area that covers the Cote d’Azur from Marseille to Nice in southern France – an area that enjoys a Mediterranean climate. Three-quarters of the wine produced in Provence is rosé.

The vineyard Dixon owns produces around 600,000 bottles of wine a year with again, the majority being rosé.

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Chateau de Berne Rosé

Rosé Wine Producers Fear Pink Plonk

John — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:14:33 +0000

The Rosé wine producers from Provence are up in arms with Brussels bureacrats over plans to make Rosé wine by simply mixing red and white wine.

The producers say the noble tradition of allowing the white juice of red grapes to sit on the skins just long enough is the only way to create the pink hue. A draft UE plan being put to final vote next month would allow the blending of reds and whites to produce rosé. In such cases, the mix is about 95% white wine with a dash of red. Critics call this pink wine.

I’ll let you the result of the vote next month.

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Rosé Wine Producers Fear Pink Plonk