{"id":2459027,"date":"2020-05-30T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326438"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:15:00","slug":"rose-redux-the-pink-season-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/rose-redux-the-pink-season-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Ros\u00e9 Redux: The Pink Season Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/wineink-atw-052820-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Close your eyes. Picture yourself, sunglasses on, head tossed back on a teak chaise lounge as you linger beside an infinity pool flowing over the edge of a cliff that drops to an azure sea spread out 1,000 feet below. There is a smell of lavender in the air and hummingbirds flit from flower to flower in the honeysuckle as a perfect coastal breeze cools your skin in the hot summer sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Without being summoned, a white-jacketed waiter magically appears with a tray with a single glass and a bottle of wine. \u201cMademoiselle?\u201d (or, perhaps, \u201cMonsieur?\u201d) he asks, pointing to the bottle. You nod subtly in acceptance and, without opening your eyes, know instinctively what has been poured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">It is, of course, a glass of ros\u00e9. Such is the promise of Provence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Over the past decade, ros\u00e9 has become the \u201cit\u201d wine. In four years, from 2016 to 2020, sales in American liquor stores rose nearly 300% according to Nielson research. As supply has exploded and quality improved, millennials, the emergent wine market, embraced the trendy wines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cI used to have to beg people to try ros\u00e9 at the Food &amp; Wine Classic,\u201d said Paul Chevalier, vice president national fine wine director for Shaw-Ross Imports, who represents the wines of Ch\u00e2teau D\u2019Esclans made in Provence, including the famed Whispering Angel. \u201cNow we are amongst the most popular wines under the tent.\u201d Make that the world. The cherubic angels that grace the pink bottles have become iconic on summer nights around the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Though ros\u00e9 is made in virtually every wine region on Earth these days, the sweet spot for it is Provence, the French wine region nestled in the lavender covered hills between the Alps and the Mediterranean coast. The abundant sunshine and the varied soils (limestone\/clay\/schist) provide for a textbook environment to produce the wines from a variety of red grapes, including grenache, syrah, cinsault, cabernet sauvignon, mourvedre and more in varying combinations. Much of the allure for the growth in the market is that ros\u00e9 provides not just sunshine in a glass, but a touch of luxury at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Memorial Day in America has just passed, so it is time once again to wear white and drink pink. As we are still banned from Air France, I took a car trip, just up and down the Roaring Fork Valley, in search of a few bottles of the latest vintage, 2019, of Provence ros\u00e9, that would provide the appropriate joie de vivre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">At El Jebeverage in, well, El Jebel, Martine Mendoza (yes, like the Argentine wine region) suggested a bottle of AIX Ros\u00e9 made in the Coteaux d\u2019Aix-en-Provence, the region\u2019s westernmost wine growing area. \u201cWe like it because it is a dry ros\u00e9 (sans sweet) with great balance.\u201d And at $18 it is a bargain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Not far away, I stopped in at Four Dogs Wine &amp; Spirits, which has a prodigious display of pink wines. It seems the midvalley likes ros\u00e9. As a fan of Michel Chapoutier, I cheated a bit, opting for a bottle of 2019 C\u00f4tes-du-Rh\u00f4ne \u201cBelleruche,\u201d the region just north of Provence. Led by grenache, with parts of cinsault and syrah, the wine is delicious and is priced at just $15.97.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">A stop in the Grog Shop in Aspen showed a pair of higher-end Proven\u00e7al faves from C\u00f4tes de Provence. Ch\u00e2teau Miraval, founded by this year\u2019s Academy Award-winning actor Brad Pitt and ex-wife Angelina Jolie with famed Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape maker Marc Perrin, is one of the most beloved ros\u00e9 bottlings on the planet due to the pedigree of the producers. But it is also a luxury pour for $30 a bottle. Another beauty, a Ch\u00e2teau Minuty 2019 \u201cM\u201d Prestige Ros\u00e9, sat nearby making for difficult choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">And finally, at Carl\u2019s Pharmacy, Maurice Eaton suggested a Provence ros\u00e9 with a local connection, the 2019 Bieler Pere &amp; Fils \u201cSabine\u201d produced in France by regular Aspen visitor Charles Bieler and his father. They are true pioneers, making and importing wines from Provence to the U.S. for close to three decades. Charles was selling the wines out of his pink Cadillac and rolled through Aspen last summer. Fourteen dollars and 40 cents is all you need to pick up a bottle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">No other wine defines a lifestyle, that of a summer afternoon on the Riviera, as does ros\u00e9 from Provence. Simply sipping a glass of the pink-hued elixir, with its fresh, clean fruit flavors and refreshing crisp acidity, can transport you to that cliffside hotel where the air is warm, the service impeccable, and cares are nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rose-reduxthe-pink-season-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close your eyes. Picture yourself, sunglasses on, head tossed back on a teak chaise lounge as you linger beside an infinity pool flowing over the edge of a cliff that drops to an azure sea spread out 1,000 feet below. 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