Reasons to cool off with a rosé
We know that these are not days of terraces in the sun (we would like to) but this should not prevent us from welcoming spring as it deserves. How about we brighten up our meals, or our dinners with a glass of rosé?
There in the distance are those images of the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, where the terraces are filled with French with a glass of very cool rosé accompanied by some delicious olives. But you don't have to go to the neighboring country: in Spain, Navarrese have continued their love affair with rosés for years and more and more of us are signing up for this taste.
But don't worry, we'll go back to drinking wine on the street. And while it happens, let's try reproduce small moments of pleasure at home to live the present that touches us in the best possible way.
That's why today we bring you seven reasons (and some clues) to drink rosé wine this spring at home and, incidentally, celebrate and thank everything that life gives us, which is not little.
life in rose
"Life is better lived if it is rosy" recommended the glorious Edith Piaf, she that she used to sing to the most painful facets of her life (an abusive father taught her to find her happiness in any corner of the interior of herself).
As we celebrate life on the streets again, let us cultivate joy. This will be the first rule, but here they go more reasons to look at everyday life through the pink of our glass.
1. PROVIDE, PROVIDE AND PROVIDE
To toast every day (and every night) for everything we have. Gratitude is a healthy exercise to be connected with the present and not be worried about what is to come.
Toast in the distance with that neighbor who goes out to the balcony every night to applaud; with your roommate, even if they are your parents... With your loved ones: online is also valid. Why not? Cheers, friends! Cheers always!
There are many reasons to drink rosé wine, what is yours?
2. SEDUCTION IS NOT MISSING IN THESE WINES
Because they are not a mixture of white and red , as some neophytes believe. its elaboration, either by pressing (darker) or by bleeding (lighter) it is as complex as understanding why in a country with a predominantly white grape vineyard, red wine is mainly drunk.
"In Spain, rosés have been considered a minor wine but, oenologically, they are very complex wines." And in terms of consumption, we are still light years ahead of other countries such as France, where 600 million liters of rosé wine are drunk annually. Countries like Romania or Hungary have been hitting hard”, he tells us José Luis Murcia, president of the Spanish Association of Wine Journalists and Writers (AEPEV).
"And that originality ours do not lack." Or if not, come and try the surprising Gurdos, of the prieto picudo variety, from León, or the Pago del Vicario petit verdot, the first in the world made with this variety.
Toast, toast and toast every day (and every night) for everything we have
3. WILL HARMONIZE WITH (ALMOST) ALL YOUR DISHES!
With a delicious improvised pasta for dinner, with a risotto. With rice with seafood, with fish, with sushi, with pizza, with a smoked salmon salad... and with white meats! Pink dares with (almost) everything.
Eye, each rosé is a world. With that burger you just made in the kitchen? There will also be a pink with which it harmonizes perfectly. In fact, some rosés with more body, the meatier ones, go very well with red meats.
Closet back? “For me, who is from Navarra and a winemaker, a rosé is always vital. A sophisticated pink…? The Pinuaga Rosé, that we made among friends, as our grandmothers cooked, with much love: made with tempranillo and garnacha, with the bleeding system, macerating the grapes with the skins to later extract the colour, the aromas and then ferment the virgin must, without the skins”, he explains. Pilar García-Granero, Professor of Sommelier at the Basque Culinary Center and oenologist.
4.FOR ITS EVOCATIVE SPRING PERFUMES...
CATA's notes? The ones you want. From the palest to the darkest you will find in the rosé wines a whole string of wild aromas of strawberries, raspberries, cherries, currants, blood orange, grapefruit, blackberry, berries, liquorice, watermelon… and even tomato and red pepper.
A whole spring festival to which you can add your own sensations: perhaps the controversial scent of cat pee? You are right. There are plants like the blackcurrant whose smell evokes the urine of felines. If it's subtle, that's a good sign, experts say.
For its evocative spring perfumes...
5.BECAUSE FOR TASTES, COLORS...
The great expert in rosés in the world already said it, the British Master of Wine residing in France, Elizabeth Gabay: "It is a mistake to look at the color of a rosé wine to deduce quality." From there, Castilla is wide.
And beware, she said it while she tasted one of the rosés from one of the emblematic regions of rosés in Spain, the D.O. Cigales. The Quelías Rosé, from Bodegas Sinforiano, which was honored last year as a revelation rosé –it has been sweeping previous vintages for years–, a claret blended with 50% Albillo grapes, 30% Garnacha, 10% Verdejo and 10% Tempranillo.
“Fine, aromatic, expressive and long on the palate”, they define it from the winery itself.
6. TO SUPPORT THE SPANISH PRODUCT WELL DONE
And not only by buying them in supermarkets, where you will find them for sure. almost better to do it in the online stores of small producers and wine families of the great rosé connoisseurs.
“Navarra has a tremendous tradition and this has spread to Calatayud and Cariñena”, explains José Luis Murcia. Today in any of these regions, where we include Cigales , you can find authentic pink delicatessen.
“But also in Rioja, with paler rosés such as Ramón Bilbao or Muga”; in Catalonia, and even in the Canary Islands. In Lanzarote, Vulcano is made from the Listán Negro variety.
Rosé wine, why not?
7. TO LOSE A FEW EXTRA KILLS
One (and another and another and another) of vegetables and rosés, because if you are looking for a first-rate, healthy spring food festival where you lose weight without losing your joy Let it be this, which the Navarrese understand well.
Pea creams, tempura vegetables with sesame and chia seeds, white asparagus, smoked salads, cod… accompanied by glasses of rosé wine from the new vintage that is now ready to be enjoyed.
A Navarrese classic: Chivite, elaborated by Arzak, a lover of pink by the way; and another not so classic, Otazu, another Navarrese rosé that bets on merlot.