A true wine lover will tell you best why you ought to buy rose wine at least once in your lifetime. From my personal point of view, rose wines are often neglected for no true reason. For me, rose wine is special because it's a perfect blend that connects the two popular wine varieties, white wine and red wine. In fact rose wine is not white enough to be white wine, nor red enough to be considered as a red wine variety, which makes it golden mean.
Some people are confused by the colour of this wine, which is probably one of the reasons why they are not willing to give this wine a try and their reason not to buy rose wine. To learn why rose wine is actually rose, you ought to learn more about the production process through which this wine is derived, and to understand the how rose wine is made, keep on reading.
First and foremost, what everyone should know is that rose wine is not received by mixing red and white wine. Rose wine is made from red grapes just like all the red wines. This means that colour of the rose wine is derived from the natural pigment of the grape skin.
However, not all rose wines feature the same colour and tannic structure. For example if you buy rose wine made in Provence and rose wine made in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, you will notice several differences, first in the colour note and after that in wine's taste and tannic structure.
Main factors that influence the basic taste and colour of the rose wine are:
Some people are confused by the colour of this wine, which is probably one of the reasons why they are not willing to give this wine a try and their reason not to buy rose wine. To learn why rose wine is actually rose, you ought to learn more about the production process through which this wine is derived, and to understand the how rose wine is made, keep on reading.
First and foremost, what everyone should know is that rose wine is not received by mixing red and white wine. Rose wine is made from red grapes just like all the red wines. This means that colour of the rose wine is derived from the natural pigment of the grape skin.
However, not all rose wines feature the same colour and tannic structure. For example if you buy rose wine made in Provence and rose wine made in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, you will notice several differences, first in the colour note and after that in wine's taste and tannic structure.
Main factors that influence the basic taste and colour of the rose wine are:
- Origin, type and quality of the grapes from which the wine is produced;
- The temperature in the vat in which grapes are stored;
- The amount of time during which the red grape juice remains in touch with the skin pigments;
- Harvesting;
- Washing and destemming the red grapes;
- Crushing of the grapes;
- Vatting or Pressing (which can be direct pressing or maceration and bleeding);
- Fermenting;
- Production in a vat;
- Tasting the received juice;
- Blending;
- Storing in bottles;