Top Ten : Rosé

By: Treve Ring

It's think pink, drink pink season

Top Ten

It's think pink, drink pink season.

Rosé wines reach from bone dry and savoury, to sparkling and celebratory, and through to sweet and sultry. Just as pink is the halfway 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 rosé wines food-friendly, especially the drier styles, which is where the category internationally is trending (whew!). As with most wines of any hue, youthful and freshest is best, but top examples have the structure to age and mature over the short term in the bottle.

To welcome in summer, here are our Top 10 Rosés recently tasted at GOW.

90/100Champagne Gosset Grand Rosé Brut N/VChampagne, France

91/100Corcelettes Oracle Rosé 2021Keremeos, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia, Canada

90/100Fabre en Provence Côtes de Provence Rosé 2020Côtes de Provence, Provence, Sud de France, France

90/100Haywire Gamay Noir Rosé Secrest Mountain Vineyard 2020Summerland, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Modest Wines The Eye of the Partridge Pinot Noir Rosé 2021Similkameen Valley, British Columbia, Canada

90/100Red Barn at Jagged Rock Transfiction Rosé 2020Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

90/100Road 13 Rosé 2021Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Seven Directions Tractor and Vines Vineyard Pinot Noir Rosé 2021West Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

90/100Tantalus Rosé 2021Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada

91/100Umberto Cesari Costa di Rosa Sangiovese Rosé 2021Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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.