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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Wine Wednesday: South African Rosé
Posted By Ted Scheffler on June 24, 2015, 7:56 AM
Anyone who visits this Wine Wednesday blog or reads any of my wine columns in City Weekly or elsewhere knows that I'm a big-time Rosé lover. And normally, I tend to veer towards the Rosé wines from the South of France, especially Provence.
But there's a Rosé from South Africa - a very affordable one - that I also like a lot. It's particularly perfect for quaffing in warm weather, perhaps at a 4th of July barbecue or picnic, for example.
Farview Goats Do Roam Rosé ($8.99) - a witty play on France's Côtes du Rhône - is sort of a training wheels Rosé wine. Even folks who eschew wine generally can find something to love in this quaffable, strawberry-hued juice.
It's a blend of red wine grapes that you'd normally expect to produce an intense, tannic wine: Shiraz, Grenache, Gamay Noir and Mourvèdre. But that's part of the fun - and one of the winemaker's challenges - in producing Rosé: knowing precisely when to take the juice off the grapeskins. It's a decision that determines everything from the color and intensity of the wine, to the tannin structure and wine's texture. For the low price, Goats do Roam gets it right.
But there's a Rosé from South Africa - a very affordable one - that I also like a lot. It's particularly perfect for quaffing in warm weather, perhaps at a 4th of July barbecue or picnic, for example.
Farview Goats Do Roam Rosé ($8.99) - a witty play on France's Côtes du Rhône - is sort of a training wheels Rosé wine. Even folks who eschew wine generally can find something to love in this quaffable, strawberry-hued juice.
It's a blend of red wine grapes that you'd normally expect to produce an intense, tannic wine: Shiraz, Grenache, Gamay Noir and Mourvèdre. But that's part of the fun - and one of the winemaker's challenges - in producing Rosé: knowing precisely when to take the juice off the grapeskins. It's a decision that determines everything from the color and intensity of the wine, to the tannin structure and wine's texture. For the low price, Goats do Roam gets it right.
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