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Ros\u00e9 season is here, but it’s also all-year! Ros\u00e9 wines come in a variety of styles that make them fantastic options for food and wine pairing. Read on for a quick ros\u00e9 refresher and a few of food and wine ideas just in time for summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is Ros\u00e9 Wine Made<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most common style of ros\u00e9 is made by pressing red grapes and leaving them for a short time on the skins. This allows them to pick up some color, aroma, flavor, and texture, but keep their light color. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blending<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another method of making ros\u00e9 is to simply blend white and red wine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saign\u00e9e Ros\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Saign\u00e9e comes from the French word ‘saigner’ (bloodletting). It refers to when winemakers drain off some of the juice after crushing red grapes, in order to increase the skin to juice ratio. This results in bigger, bolder red wines. The drained-off juice can be fermented into ros\u00e9. It’s usually darker in color and fuller flavored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn about Ros\u00e9 on our series: 21 Days to Wine.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ros\u00e9 and Food<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first that comes to mind with ros\u00e9 is often a beach view or a poolside lounger. That’s perfectly cool. And you can even call it “\u00e0 la piscine<\/em>” and put ice in it. But ros\u00e9, with it’s myriad flavor profiles goes great with a number of dishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mussels<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Moules Frites (saut\u00e9ed mussels and fries) is a classic French dish, and traditionally served with ros\u00e9. When it comes to the saut\u00e9, your options are endless. You can keep it simple, and just add parsley and a little lemon, or you can add some depth of flavor with tomatoes, bay leaf, oregano, sage, rosemary, curry… it’s truly up to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match the intensity of your dish with the intensity of your ros\u00e9. Deeper-colored ros\u00e9 will always have a bolder quality and ripe red fruit, whereas the pale, salmon-pink ones are more likely to have delicate aromas of raspberry, strawberry tops, and sea salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuna Steak<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tuna has a delicate flavor but a texture that requires something a little chewier in the glass. A bright and fruity ros\u00e9 will soften and round out the sensation on your palate, and uplift and uphold any interesting ingredients, like olives, capers, and tomatoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try my recipe <\/a><\/strong>for Sicilian-style couscous with tuna. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbecued Chicken<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As long as it’s not too slathered in rich and smoky sauce, grilled chicken goes well with ros\u00e9 for the same reason tuna does. Grilling can also leave behind a bitter flavor, and a fruitier ros\u00e9 helps to soften that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicken Tagine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You might be tempted to pair Moroccan spice blends like cumin, ginger, coriander, black pepper and cinnamon with a complex and layered red wine, but you’d risk covering them up. A full-bodied ros\u00e9 made from red grapes like Grenache or Syrah that have some natural spice to them are wonderful option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sparkling Ros\u00e9 Wine And Food<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sparkling wine has its own brand of pairing rules, namely that the bubbles work like tiny scrubbing brushes for the palate, which makes the wines very refreshing but can also be abrasive. Sparkling ros\u00e9 is no different, except that it brings some extra fruit and floral qualities to the nose and some silkiness on the palate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falafel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Falafel, the deep-fried chickpea patties are a wonderful match for a sparkling ros\u00e9. The bubbles balance out the fatty sheen from frying and the fruity quality matches the intensity of the spice blend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ros\u00e9 Popsicles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s a free country. If you love fros\u00e9, I’m not here to judge. What I would recommend instead of a plain pink slushy is pink popsicles! There a lot of recipes out there, but my favorite is simple. Two parts ros\u00e9 wine, one part pur\u00e9ed ripe strawberries and or raspberries. This combination will freeze just fine, and the flavors stay true the ros\u00e9 you’re using. Enjoy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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