{"id":3467,"date":"2015-07-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:29:23","slug":"how-is-rose-wine-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/how-is-rose-wine-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Ros\u00e9 Wine Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"light<\/a>Ros\u00e9 wines<\/a> seem to be all the rage once again.\u00a0 Gone is the stigma of the pink drink and memories of sweet, low alcohol, innocuous White Zinfandels, which weren\u2019t white and barely ros\u00e9, either. \u00a0Today\u2019s ros\u00e9 wines come in all shades of pink, from a barely perceptible blush from leading Provencal ros\u00e9 producers, to deeply colored concoctions made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.\u00a0 Ros\u00e9s can be made from any number of grape varietals, and they can range in residual sugar from bone dry to quite sweet.\u00a0 Today\u2019s consumers tend to eschew sweet ros\u00e9 wines in favor of dry versions, which have been popular among Europeans for generations. \u00a0In fact, the French drink more dry ros\u00e9 wine today than white wine.<\/p>\n

Methods for Making Ros\u00e9<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ros\u00e9 wines can be made in several ways.\u00a0 They can be made exclusively from one or more red grape varieties that spend just enough time on their skins after crushing to impart color and a bit of flavor (remembering that it is the skin of the grape that determines a wine\u2019s color, not its juice).\u00a0 The longer the red varietal\u2019s skins remain in contact with the juice or must, the greater the wine\u2019s color.\u00a0 When red skins are removed soon after contact, ros\u00e9 rather than red wine results. \u00a0This is the most common method of producing ros\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9 can also be made by adding a small amount of red wine in the form of a completely fermented wine or as unfermented juice to white wine. This practice is rarely done today, except in Champagne, where small amounts of Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier are often added to white Champagne to create ros\u00e9 Champagne.\u00a0 The two then marry in the bottle as the wine undergoes secondary fermentation.<\/p>\n

Almost any red grape variety can produce ros\u00e9.\u00a0 Some of the most common grape varietals<\/a> are Grenache, Syrah, Mourv\u00e8dre, Cinsault (Rh\u00f4ne and Southern French varietals known for producing the bone dry ros\u00e9s of Provence and nearby Languedoc), Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zinfandel. Almost all wine-producing countries make some ros\u00e9 wine from local or international varietals.\u00a0 Garnacha (Grenache) and Tempranillo in Spain produce excellent dry ros\u00e9s, as do Sangiovese and Nebbiolo in Italy.\u00a0 Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah and Zinfandel based ros\u00e9s predominate in California, many of which are deliciously dry.\u00a0 So pick your pink pleasure, indulge yourself and enjoy!<\/p>\n

Don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ros\u00e9 wines seem to be all the rage once again.\u00a0 Gone is the stigma of the pink drink and memories of sweet, low alcohol, innocuous White Zinfandels, which weren\u2019t white and barely ros\u00e9, either. \u00a0Today\u2019s ros\u00e9 wines come in all shades of pink, from a barely perceptible blush from leading Provencal ros\u00e9 producers, to deeply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[7,11,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow is Ros\u00e9 Wine Made? | Wine Blog from The International Wine of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gone is the stigma of the pink drink and memories of sweet, low alcohol, innocuous White Zinfandels, which weren\u2019t white and barely ros\u00e9, either.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/how-is-rose-wine-made\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How is Ros\u00e9 Wine Made? 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