You saw the big bottle offer we sent out two weeks ago and I’m thrilled to see that a lot of you will be opening very large bottles of this Rose this summer!  We took and double magnum to a wedding party and it was gone in about 30...

2022 G. D. Vajra Rosabella Rosato, Vino Rosato Piemonte

2022 Casaretti Chiaretto di Bardolino 'Rosa dei Casaretti' 

The just-landed 2022 Rocca di Montegrossi Rosato is a phenomenal wine (and would be in any color!) and my personal favorite of all the wonderful Roses we have featured throughout the spring and summer.  There are few Roses that I can call serious;...

2022 Chateau Pradeaux Bandol Rose

2022 Li Veli Susumaniello Rosato IGP Puglia John: A personal favorite from Italy’s sunny Adriatic coast, this has great substance to go along with its fabulous aromatics.  This wine reminds me of a gorgeous sun-spangled lunch overlooking...

2022 La Spinetta 'Il Rose di Casanova' Toscana IGT If you know Giorgio Rivetti, you know he doesn’t ‘dabble.’ When he does something, he does it big, or he doesn’t do it at all!  The family business began with Moscato- and...

2021 Gini Soave Classico  People of a certain age still cringe at the word ‘Soave’ as it conjures up the virtual ocean full of really bad wine once grown in the flats along the autostrada near Soave castle between Verona and Venice...

2022 Domaine de Pallus 'Messanges' Chinon Rose Welcome to spring!  This lovely pink of 100% Cabernet Franc has just-arrived from the Loire Valley for your spring and summer quaffing pleasure.  It is here, I think, where Cab...

2022 Gobelsburg Rosé Schlosskellerei Gobelsburg 'Cistercien ' Much of Austria’s Danube Valley is considered far too cool to fully ripen the native red wine grapes planted there and some of those become the source of...

, Friday Follies Case Special $222/$18.50 per bottle Smart shoppers know that spring is not the season for the new vintage of Rose but also the best time to find deals on the previous harvest’s wines, the best of which are only now rounding into...

PRIMA Notes:  We’ve been buying the sumptuous, delicious Arnot-Roberts California Rose for over a decade now and it never fails to please.  And, like the first robin we spy on the lawn each year, the arrival of their Rose is an early...

2021 Terre Nere Etna Rosato 

Winery Notes:  A special vinification practice led to the use of this term: the must remains in contact with the skins for about 10 hours and this practice gives the wine a beautiful rosè hue. Our Ramato boasts a rich, complex bouquet of...

PRIMA Notes:  For their rose wine, Bodegas Olivares uses only free-run juice fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks.  There is only a short maceration on the skins, which explains the delicate and attractive pink color. ...