16 rosé wines to pop open for Mother’s Day

getting your rosé run started when the Northern Hemisphere blinks itself awake in the spring. Gotta start somewhere. The longest journey begins with a single sip.

With lower amounts of alcohol and tannin, high acidity and loads of bright fruit, it is hard to go wrong with a few bottles of nice rosé on hand. If the mothers in your life have eyes for aesthetics, they will also appreciate the beauty that rosé brings to your table. They’re not all dusty pink and blushing, as you know; some of them are closer to candy apple red.

But they are all fun. Even the serious ones are fun.

So pick up a few bottles of rosé, give them a nice chill and celebrate your mother May 14. Do it with a toast, if that’s the kind of person you are, or just show up and be the respectful, thoughtful person she taught you to be.

Below are notes from a recent tasting of rosés from around the world. They are listed in ascending order according to price.

Savory herbs and minerality segued into floral notes, plus raspberry and other red fruits. From the Coastal Region of South Africa.

This organic Austrian wine from zweigelt grapes opened with strawberries, peach, anise and zingy acidity, and then came full circle for a long-lingering strawberry finish.

From Italy’s Tuscany region and made of 100 percent sangiovese, this wine offered peach, kiwi, clean tropical fruits and a bright, crisp finish.

Intensely aromatic and packed with ripe raspberry, strawberry and citrus, this wine from Lake County, Calif., had a vibrant electric-red hue, like diluted Campari.

This 70 percent sangiovese/30 percent cabernet sauvignon Tuscan blend offered mouth-watering red fruits, a touch of salinity, bright acidity and a formidable 13.5 percent alcohol.

Peach, lime, strawberry, orange zest, minerality and tangy acidity sum up this blend of syrah, cabernet sauvignon, grenache and cinsault from France’s Cotes de Provence.

Luscious strawberry, apple, anise and spice all mingled in this lip-smacking, long-finishing Napa Valley blend of mostly cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc.

This 100 percent syrah from Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley offered an intriguing mix of hay, fennel, floral notes, dried cherries, stone fruits and zingy acidity.