Come taste the finest roses available this year. For free!

Our first-team selections (subject to change) include 2010s from:

Chateau Valcombe (Ventoux)
Bagnol (Cassis)                     
Pradeaux (Bandol)
Manarine (Cotes du Rhone)
Chateau La Rame (Bordeaux)
L’Eperonniere (Loire)
Lucien Crochet (Sancerre)
Bisson (Liguria)

The spotlight shines on rose too briefly. They are a bigger portion of my wine diet from May-September than red wine, and for long stretches of warm summer run neck-and-neck with white. I could drink rose wine for a week, happily. It is associated with vacations, holiday (Memorial Day, 4th of July) festivities, good times and good weather. But rose never goes away for me. I drink it a little in the coldest parts of winter, rare bottles to be sure, but enough to know there’s nothing strange or wrong about that behavior.

So 2011 marks the end of us pretending to convince you about rose. Pink wine is back, popular, people love it again like the bad times with Cali blush wine never happened.