You should be drinking rosé at these California wineries
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No category of wine has experienced such a dramatic shift in popularity as rosé in recent years. Long gone are the days of sugary white Zinfandel for decades, the only pink wine many Americans knew. Now, imports of high-quality dry rosé from Provence, rosé’s homeland, are skyrocketing, and it’s difficult to find a California winery these days that isn’t tinkering with pink.
HOW ROSÉ IS MADE
Rosé can be made in a variety of ways, but it’s always made from red grapes. In Provence, grapes like Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre and Cinsault are the most common varieties used for rosé production, but here in California, anything goes. You’ll see rosés made from Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and just about every red grape in between. Rosés can be paler than an onion skin or as deeply colored as a ruby. (The color tells you nothing about the quality of the wine