SOMMELIERS’ PICKS

Refreshing B.C. Rosés

Rosé season is in full bloom. Crisp, refreshing and immensely thirstquenching, dry rosé wines are the perfect summer sippers. Not quite white and certainly not red, quality pink wines are made from black grapes with some direct skin contact after pressing to impart a pretty blush (although methods do vary). They’re among the oldest known types of wine and also the most unfairly maligned thanks to the rash of candied blends and white zinfandels in the 1980s. These exquisite New World labels, all sourced from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley and selected by local sommeliers, explain why rosé should be taken seriously.