{"id":11744,"date":"2012-05-14T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:00:05","slug":"ingredient-of-the-week-rose-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/ingredient-of-the-week-rose-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingredient of the Week: Ros\u00e9 Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ros\u00e9 Wine (c)2012 LaDomestique.com<\/p><\/div>\n

This week I suffered my first (and only) sunburn of the season. It’s now warm enough to steal a Friday afternoon at the pool before the kids get out of school and ruin all the lovely peace and quiet. Each year, I cautiously don my bikini and creep out to a lounge chair in the sun, soaking up the rays until I’m warmed through. Sweating in the sun feels good, and makes me thirsty- not for water or lemonade, but for ros\u00e9. This dry “pink wine” is something I look forward to every spring when the latest vintage is released. Meant to be drunk young, for the most part, ros\u00e9 should be enjoyed within the first year or two of the vintage. To really appreciate ros\u00e9, you’ve got to understand what it represents. Mark Oldman describes Proven\u00e7e as the original home of ros\u00e9\u00a0in his book, Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine<\/a>, writing, “that paradisiacal region of sun-kissed slopes and lavender meadows remains a locus of rose’s spiritual soul.” A Mediterranean coastline of fun and sun in the southeast of France<\/a>, the mother of the best ros\u00e9 in the world,\u00a0Proven\u00e7e produces blushing pink wines with minerality, floral essences, a hint of berry or melon fruit, and a truly refreshing acidity guaranteed to quench your thirst on a hot day. The beauty of any\u00a0ros\u00e9 is its ability to be crisp and refreshing like a white wine, with the depth of flavor and body of a red wine.<\/p>\n

Delicious ros\u00e9 is produced in other countries too, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Australia, and the United States. The term ros\u00e9<\/em> indicates a style of wine,\u00a0made of red wine grapes varying from region to region. In France, the grapes for making ros\u00e9 are a selected from Grenache, Cinsault, Mourv\u00e8dre, and Syrah. The Navarra region of Spain<\/a> is famous for rosado<\/em> made from Garnacha (known as Grenache in France). Italy produces excellent rosato<\/em> wines saturated in deep red color with flavors of berries and dried cherries with a hint of cinnamon spice and orange peel. The lip smacking grape Montepulciano is used to make rosato<\/em>\u00a0in the Abruzzo region<\/a> while Negroamaro grapes are used to make rosato in Puglia. Valle d’ Aosta, in northern Italy, is known for strawberry-scented rosato<\/em> made from the thin-skinned Pr\u00ebmatta grape.<\/p>\n

Most often,\u00a0ros\u00e9 is vinified from red grapes in a method known as saign\u00e9e, and\u00a0the grape skins are left in contact with the grape juice for a short time, thus imparting less red pigment than a truly red wine. Sometimes,\u00a0ros\u00e9 is the result of blending red and white wines together. The color of\u00a0ros\u00e9 ranges from a whisper of pink to deep garnet red, and holds a clue to the flavor inside the bottle. Lighter colored ros\u00e9 indicates very dry, mineral, crisp and floral wine, while rich color is a sign of deeper fruit flavors and spice.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing serious about\u00a0ros\u00e9, but that doesn’t mean it’s a joke. Underrated<\/em> is a word that comes up constantly in the\u00a0ros\u00e9 wine conversation. The acidity and spice character of\u00a0ros\u00e9 pairs happily with an impressive range of foods. Across the globe,\u00a0ros\u00e9 is enjoyed with spicy foods (anything with chiles- Chinese, Thai, Mexican cuisines). It’s a match for delicate seafood and stands strong next to charcuterie or grilled\/roasted meats. Take advantage of the affordability of easygoing\u00a0ros\u00e9 wines, and do as the Frankies<\/a> do- taste as many bottles as you can early in the season, then pick your favorite\u00a0ros\u00e9 for summer and buy it by the case.<\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9 wine is the “pantry” ingredient of the week at la Domestique, and you’ll find inspiration on cooking with pink wine as well as pairing it with vibrant spring meals. If you’ve never tasted ros\u00e9, it’s time to try something new. The days are getting warmer and sunny afternoons beg for a bottle of thirst-quenching\u00a0ros\u00e9 wine. Won’t you join me?<\/p>\n

Do you drink ros\u00e9? Share your favorite regions and producers of pink wine in the comments section. Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

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This week I suffered my first (and only) sunburn of the season. It’s now warm enough to steal a Friday afternoon at the pool before the kids get out of school and ruin all the lovely peace and quiet. Each year, I cautiously don my bikini and creep out to a lounge chair in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[7,66,91],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19282,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dsweb.jessicaotoole.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}