Top 10 : Sparkling Rosé for Every Day

By: Treve Ring

Think pink, drink fizzy pink

Top Ten

Though Valentine’s Day is divisive, it’s easy to forever admit your unabashed love for Rosé.

Even more so for sparkling rosé!

What’s not to love? Rosé wines reach from bone dry and savoury, to sparkling and celebratory, and through to sweet and sultry. Just as pink is the half way hue between white and red on the colour spectrum, drinking pink offers up the best of both in the wine worlds. You get the freshness and acidity of white wines, plus the structure, berry fruit and tannin presence of reds. This harmony of styles makes rose wines particularly food-friendly across a myriad of flavours.

So whether it’s a romantic multicourse dinner à deux, bubbles for your bubble, or a celebratory solo brunch in bed, forget flowers, buy Rosés.

Here are our top 10 recently tasted sparkling rosés. For our top 10 still rosés, click here.

90/100Blue Mountain Brut Rosé R.D. Méthode Traditionelle 2016Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

89/100Bottega Gold Rose Prosecco Spumante Brut N/VTreviso, Verona, Veneto, Italy

89/100Ciù Ciù Rymarosé N/VMarche, Italy

93/100Champagne Bollinger Rosé Brut N/VChampagne, France

91/100Champagne Laurent Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut N/VChampagne, France

90/100Ferrari Brut Rosé Metodo Classico N/VTrento, Trentino- Alto-Adige, Italy

90/100Fitz Reserve Sparkling Rosé 2016Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

89/100Jean-Paul Brun Terre Dorees FRV 100 N/VBeaujolais, Burgundy, France

89/100Rathjen Cellars Sparkling Rosé N/VSaanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Township 7 Seven Stars Equinox Brut Rosé 2016Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Written By: TR

Treve Ring

Treve Ring is a wine writer and editor, judge and speaker, and perpetual traveller. She is based on Vancouver Island, Canada, though is most often found on a plane or in a vineyard. After completing her Art History degree with Distinction from the University of Victoria and being exposed to the world of wine business at Christie’s in London, England, she switched gears, leaving the realm of art for the world of wine. She is a certified sommelier, WSET diploma holder, Champagne Master, Wine Scholar Guild instructor, and certified Sherry instructor, and has been presenting on wine internationally since co-founding Cru Consultancy, a boutique wine education and consultation company, in 2012. She is the current Chair of the Vancouver Island Sommelier Association.