Facets of pink: no other type of wine can hold a candle to rosé when it comes to the play of colours.

La vie en rose: all about the summer star among wines

Benjamin Herzog, Othmar Kiem, Peter Moser, Ulrich Sautter, Dominik Vombach, 10.06.2024

Rosé wine is a summer star: with its subtle play of colors, it provides the perfect accent for enjoying wine under a blue sky. In terms of sales figures, rosé has only known one direction for several years: steeply upwards.

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Pastel colours, onion skin, coral pink, salmon orange, brick red. The descriptions of the colour palette of rosé wines are as nuanced as the wine styles themselves. It is no coincidence that rosé experts often bottle their wines in white glass; the pleasure should start with the appearance. And it is precisely the pleasure communicated to the eye that is not left to chance: top rosés are not only produced for their taste, but also for their colour nuance – firstly in the vineyard, and then also during harvesting and pressing.

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