For thepast 30 years we have had plenty of cheap, generic rosé, but now a new, seriouswine category with complexity and challenges is beginning to appear. ElizabethGabay’s pioneering book, Rosé: Understanding the pink wine revolution is thefirst expert guide to the rosé market as it is today and to where it is going.
Gabaybegins with a history of rosé. Its rising commercial popularity during the past30 years has been a success story, but it hasn’t necessarily helped to raiserosé’s image as a quality wine. In the cellar not only has there been anenormous leap over the past 10 years in the quality of rosé produced, but alsoa growing number of producers are experimenting with different styles, allpink, but different. Viticulture has developed for rosé wine production, andGabay shows how production for premium rosés is moving from the harvesting ofunripe grapes (for the essential acidity) to planting at higher altitudes andnorth-facing slopes. She analyses the economics of rosé production and the roleof Provence as a catalyst for change, before discussing other French rosés andpink wines from around the world.
Elizabeth Gabay isarguably the world’s leading authority on pink wine and
Rosé: Understanding thepink wine revolution is essential reading for wine professionals, students andcollectors as well as serious wine lovers and wine tourists.