Fruity, light, tangy or floral, rosé wine is a wine with multiple flavors that is increasingly popular in France, especially during the summer season.

Easy to enjoy and particularly refreshing , it is therefore not surprising to see it so often served on a terrace, on the edge of the beach, a swimming pool or during a barbecue with friends.

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How to serve rosé?

Perhaps you sometimes, or even often, enjoy a glass of rosé, this refreshing wine that regularly accompanies our outings on terraces and in the sun!

But do you know how rosé wine is made?

First of all, you should know that rosé wine is produced like a classic wine, and that contrary to popular belief, rosé wine is not the result of a blend between a red wine and a white wine. We can even go further and say that rosé wine is at the very origin of winemaking. Indeed, produced since antiquity, rosé wine is surely the oldest type of wine .

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But then, how is rosé wine made?

The production of rosé wine

The production process for rosé wine is very similar to that of red wine, except that the maceration time, which is shorter for rosé, allows for a pale pink/salmon color. Rosé wine is produced from black grapes with white pulp, such as Pinot Noir, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan, Cinsault, or Malbec.

This is particularly the case with the Or & Azur rosé wine collection , an AOP Languedoc cuvée designed by Gérard Bertrand, labeled AB (organic wine) and Bee Friendly (preservation of pollinating insects) produced from Grenache and Cinsault grape varieties. If you didn't know, very few black grapes have colored pulp. These are part of the category of so-called "teinturier" grape varieties.

The pale pink color of rosé wine is thus obtained thanks to the skin of the grapes, and not thanks to the flesh. It is during pressing and maceration, when the grape juice is in contact with the skins, that it changes color. Thus, the longer the maceration, the more intense the color will be and the closer it will be to red.

Once the coloring and maceration phases are complete, the fermentation phase begins. Fermentation allows the sugars to transform into alcohol through the action of yeasts, either naturally present or added by humans. Finally, before bottling, the wine undergoes the aging phase, in oak barrels for high-end rosés or in stainless steel vats.

Aging is a very important phase in the rosé wine making process. Indeed, it is during aging that the aromas and structure of the wine will be worked on. After devatting, comes the final stage of bottling, which is, as its name suggests, the bottling of the wine, and will be closed with a cork stopper or a screw cap.

There you have it, now you know how rosé wine is produced!

All you need to know now is which are the best rosé wines to make the right choice!

To learn more about the different types of wine:

• Demeter biodynamic wine
• Organic rosé wine
• Organic Languedoc wine
• Rosé wine , the best rosé wine and the Languedoc rosé wine
• Orange wine

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