EU Allows Rosé Thats A Mix Of Red and White Wine

When red and white wine sales are steadily dwindling around Europe, what could the answer be? The EU suggests we blend them together and create rosé.

Rosé wine has been produced for decades all around the world and there are a number of different ways to produce it, all of which take great care and refined processes. They most commonly adopted method is crushing the red grapes and filtering off the red colouring before it can stain the wine. This is known as the “nobler” tradition. This produces a lovely rose-coloured appearance and a light glow.

A little less refined idea has been put forward by Brussels for making the rosé. They have put forward a proposition to make the wine by taking white wine (around 95%) and mixing in a little red wine until the mixture takes on a pinkish look. On April 27th a draft EU plan will be put to a final vote and would allow the new type of wine to be produced and sold anywhere in Europe

Wine makers in Provence, where the majority of France’s rosé wine is currently made are outraged. Many of them feel that the producers of red and white wine in Europe are selling out since white wine sales have been overtaken by rosé in France. It is easy to see why people would want to be in the business of selling rosé wine at the moment as its popularity is at an all time high. Rosé wine racks up a figure of 22% of total wine sales in France currently.

Experts say that the new wine would not stand a chance of seeing decent sales like many produces hope. Most suggest that rosé wine has earned it’s subtle flavours and distinctive qualities through painstaking experimenting and developing of advanced methods. This is not something they think can be matched by such amateurish methods