Seven reasons why we love rose

Let’s celebrate the start of Rose Week – the 10^th consecutive year that the blog has waxed eloquent in praise of pink wine – with seven reasons why we love it:

1. It’s cheap and delicious. This is worth saying again, and especially since we’re seeing so much rose that costs $20 or more. It’s almost impossible to buy a bottle of $10 rose that isn’t worth drinking. In this, the pricer roses usually aren’t that much better – just more expensive.

2. It usually has a screwcap.

3. It will pair with almost anything, be it any food, warm weather, a barbecue, or just sitting on the porch and contemplating a summer afternoon.

4. It makes the wine snobs crazy. First, they lumped rose with white zinfandel, and sneered at all pink wine. Today, they’re falling all over themselves to love rose – and since they can’t bring themselves to buy cheap wine, they’re overpaying for it.

5. Great rose is made in every part of the world, whether it’s around the corner or in the world’s greatest wine regions. Even California, which has so much difficulty making quality wine that most of us can afford to buy, makes it.

6. It makes producers crazy. I get releases all the time from companies big and small, expensive and otherwise, who never cared about pink wine before, but know they have to make it or suffer financially.

7. And did I mention that it’s cheap and delicious?