Rosé
French for “pink”, Rosé is used to describe a category of refreshing wines that are pink in color but are made from red grapes. There are three ways to make rosé wine: skin contact, saignée and blending. There are many different styles of rosé, and the resulting wines are usually a result of both the grapes and techniques used. You can use Wine Enthusiast’s online Buying Guide to find the top-rated Rosé among our extensive Rosé wine reviews and easy-to-use database. Our Rosé reviews will give you a general idea what to expect from wines made from Rosé, and will help you find one that best suits your needs.
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Château d’Esclans 2010 Garrus Rosé (Côtes de Provence)
- $90
This delicious wine offers subtle barrel nuances, with ripe plum and strawberry fruits. Along with this is a stylish crispness, just touched by spice and toast. This is a serious wine, intended for food.
— R.V.
(7/1/2012)
Notre Vin 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé (Howell Mountain)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $24
A very rich blush wine made from the same Cabernet grapes that go into the winery’s expensive dry table wine. It’s silky and wonderfully crisp, with deep flavors of raspberries, rose petals and vanilla spice. Wonderful with mushroom risotto, or with little puff pastry appetizers.
— S.H.
(9/1/2010)
Château d’Esclans 2008 Garrus Rosé (Côtes de Provence)
- Cellar Selection
- $90
The top rosé from Sacha Lichine’s Esclans estate, this is wood aged and the flavors of wood are apparent, if subtle. The wine has a great smooth texture, the fruit well integrated, showing richness as well as elegance. Not classic Provence, but certainly impressive.
— R.V.
(9/1/2010)
Domaine Gavoty 2009 Cuvée Clarendon Rosé (Côtes de Provence)
- Editors' Choice
- $22
The top wine from Gavoty, this is impressive. It has a fine structure, enveloped by rich fruits, soft apple skins and red cherry tannins and a tight layer of acidity. It could age for a year.
— R.V.
(9/1/2010)
Lynmar 2009 Rose of Pinot Noir Rosé (Russian River Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $22
A terrific California blush wine, rich and compelling, with a gorgeous color, sort of a salmon-koi gold. It’s bone dry and crisply clean in acidity, with strong, but not heavy, flavors of strawberries and raspberries. There’s a dusting of tannins that give the wine a solid structure.
— S.H.
(12/15/2010)
Cayuse 2008 Edith Rosé (Walla Walla Valley (OR))
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- $35
A beautiful copper color, deep and dense. Modeled on the wines of Provence’s Domaines Ott, this rosé was designed, says the winemaker, to age. It’s whole-cluster fermented from Grenache vines that have been picked and grown specifically to be a rosé—not a saignée. Compact, compressed and powerful with an emphasis on the mineral subtext, light peach and strawberry…
— P.G.
(2/1/2011)
Château Coussin 2010 Rosé (Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire)
- $20
Textured, dry rosé that reveals its rich character slowly. The Sumeire family, making wine at Coussin for 200 years, has mastered the production of a serious, food-friendly style of rosé.
— R.V.
(8/1/2011)
Château d’Esclans 2009 Garrus Rosé (Côtes de Provence)
- $90
The wood-aged Garrus seems a contradiction in terms when described as a Provence rosé. But taste it and it makes complete sense with its rich fruits, only the slightest hint of toast and sweet crushed strawberry flavors. It is rounded, smooth, impressive.
— R.V.
(8/1/2011)
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