Anyone looking for a summer pink

[wdonovan]

Wife and I are major pink lovers. Our poison is that of South Rhone and Provence. We've noticed that there are a lot more choices for good drinking rose's this year, compared to last summer. Don't know if that's a trend that's here to stay. We hope so. Some of our choices are: Aqueria ('03 Tavel $19). The 04 is getting ready to ship so it looks like they're flooding the market with the 03 which is still very good for a "drink it right now" wine. Houchart ('03 Provence $8) is a little rough on the finish but we rate it mid 80s. Chat. l'Oasis ('03 Provence $7) has got to be one of the wine deals of the century (Don't tell too many people about this one). Dom. Fontanyl ('03 Provence $10) is on the lighter side. Very nice BBQ side order. Guigal CdR Rose' ('03 Rhone $14) is on our hit list and we see it everywhere. Happily, we're not stuck with paying 40 bucks a bottle for Ott as we have many viable choices. We have a pending import deal to receive 5 cases from Provence. This deal took months to orchestrate and I still haven't seen wine. All because we couldn't get rose's last year. BTW Everyone calls this juice "summer wine" but we keep our thermostat on 71F all year round so we can drink it all year. Aside from that, nothing goes with shellfish like this stuff. That's about all I know about "summer pinks" and I'm sticking to it. Bottoms up!