wine: rosé madness
It’s every where you look this summer. It is a Rosé Craze!! Ever since I posted a not so excited review of my first rosé ever, I just can’t seem to go anywhere without hearing about the wine. There was the issue of Wine Spectator, displays at my local supermarket, rosé tasting nights at nearby wine bars. It was enough to inspire me to try a second rosé, and when that one failed to wow me, I just kept thinking… I must be crazy, I must be crazy.
Well, I was glad to find out that I wasn’t the only one having a “pink” crisis. There has been a running “pink” debate all over my favorite wine blogs, between those who just don’t get it and those who do.
So up until this weekend, I whole-heartedly agreed with the NY Times. What is all the hype about? This drink is completely bland, blah. The mix of red and white apparently equals the blander of the two. But still, there was something about it (maybe the fun color) that made me really want to like it.
So then, on Friday… it clicked. Bad day at work, I missed a meeting by getting lost in Chrysler headquarters for half an hour in 5 inch heels. My feet hurt, my brain hurt. All I wanted to do was sit on the back porch at my dad’s house, bask in the sun, and escape the world. No thought, just relax. According to the experts, it was the perfect conditions for rosé.
So, I had the Domaine Des Karantes. It was cool, it was fruity, it smelled like perfume and tasted like watermelon candy. Watermelon and summer, rosé and summer. It all became clear (I’m sure it helped that it was 80% red).
While there was nothing amazing about the wine, I finally got the idea. Sometimes drinking is a mood, a state of being. You have cocktails in swanky night clubs, you have wine during orchestra concert picnics, you have beer at a cozy pub, and you have rosé out on the deck in the summer when you want to be carefree.
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