As a long and hot summer is drawing to a close, While visitting friends, a bottle of rose got cracked during which might have been one of the last days when we could bask outside on the terrace in the sunshine.
The wine wsa a recent acquisition of the host, it being a wine from the French Alsace region, close to the German border.
This wine was pinot noit based, and achieves it's pinkish colour by allowing the grape skins to macerate for a short time, rather than allowing the wine to become red.
The flavour was mainly red fruit. SO much red fruit in fact that it appeared to be a sweet wine, even though there was no cloying sweetness, so I doubt there was sugar there, just the heaps of fruit made it seem like that.
We just had it during conversation, and than it was good, with food (I'd usually serve a rose with a barbecue in summer), it would not have been a good match, unless it was served with something which contained red fruit itself.
On a whole not a bad experience, but I've had better red's as well.