IN RECENT years rosé sales have soared across the world and especially in Australia where the big Cellarmasters group has recorded a 16% annual increase. It's a far cry from the days when wine producers threw the odds and ends of the crush into rosés. Now they are putting special effort into their rosés and, as today's three wines show, using premium grape varieties.
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Here are three worth your time.
Angullong 2019 Fossil Hill Rosé, $26, 4 stars
This one, from the Crossing family's Orange Region grosso clone sangiovese grapes, is pale blush pink and has 13.5% alcohol and ripe strawberry scents and front-palate flavour.
The middle palate features pomegranate, red apple and flint and the finish gunmetal acid. Buy at angullong.com.au and the Millthorpe village cellar door, outside Orange, and drink now with prawn salad.
Brokenwood 2019 Rosato Nebbiolo, $30, 4.5 stars
LIKE the Angullong, this Brokenwood rosé comes from an Italian-origin grape. Nebbiolo is an ancient north-western Italian variety, famed in Valtellina and the Barolo and Barbaresco regions of Piedmont. Here the wine is from cool-climate grapes grown in the north-east Victorian 1850s gold rush area of Beechworth.
With 13% alcohol, it has copper hues and rose petal scents. Racy raspberry flavour comes through on the front palate and blueberry, spice, spearmint and mineral characters integrate on the middle palate.
Slatey acid refreshes at the finish. Best consumed within 12 months and good with prosciuttto, rocket and egg tart. Get it at Brokenwood's McDonalds Road, Pokolbin, cellar door, brokenwood.com.au and wine shops.
Gundog Estate 2019 Canberra Rosé, $30, 4.5 stars
MATT Burton has a knack of getting top grapes for Gundog Estate. From his Hunter base he buys fruit from the Vernon vineyard, Glen Howard's Somerset vineyard and from vines planted on Pokolbin land that once made great Lindeman's wines. The fine Moppity and Freeman vineyards are Hilltops sources and his Canberra creations are from his parents' Gundaroo vines and Wallaroo, Four Winds and Dahlberg vineyards.
This 13.5%-alcohol, watermelon pink, Wallaroo cabernet sauvignon rosé has violet scents and zesty cherry front-palate flavour.
The middle palate shows raspberry, apple peel and mint and the finish steely acid. At gundogestate.com.au, the Gundog Gourmet Pantry and the Gundaroo cellar door. Drink now with fishcakes.
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