The 20 best rosé wines to buy this summer
From £6 sippers to splash-out stars, these 20 bottles will make your summer sing whether you re in Provence or Pontefract
Pink picks for every budget
Credit: Haarala Hamilton
Rosé isn’t just a drink any more. Like the sight of a stripy deckchair on the sand or a white sail on a blue sea, the appearance of a glass of pale-pink wine sends a note to our holiday-starved brains: relax, unwind, summer is here. No rosés have quite the same subliminal messaging power as the palest pinks from Provence, that fabled land of jasmine, palm trees, Mediterranean sunshine, hilltop villages, lavender fields and umbrella pines.
Monday, March 15, 2021
How much does the Wine Curmudgeon s world overlap with mine?
The answer, surprisingly, seems to be: about one-third. Read on, to see how I arrived at this conclusion.
Jeff Siegel (the Wine Curmudgeon) has announced that he has now gone underground as from today, his blog will forever be behind a subscriber-only paywall. Financially, one can hardly blame him, because a freely available web-site is no way to make a living.
Not unexpectedly, however, this move has engendered a few negative comments from some of his audience, giving various reasons for not paying up. The one that is particularly relevant to me is this: