Rosé Wine Producers Fear Pink Plonk

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.