Refreshing Whites for Summer and Beyond

As with fashion and television shows some things peak during different seasons. The same can be said with wine. During the cold, dark nights of winter you’ll find many people sipping bold cabernet sauvignons by the fire, while during the summer big red wines feel heavy and hot. The dog days of summer can feel heavy and hot themselves so many of us turn to cool and refreshing whites to help satiate our thirst and pass time on the patio. Whether you need to pair a bottle with a light meal or are just looking for something to sip with friends, choosing a wine that fits your mood is as easy as a trip to your local wine shop — if you know what you’re looking for, that is.

For a small twist to your sipping, try a light, refreshing rosé.

We often take our social cues from nature — drinking more refreshing white wines in summer and richer, heavier reds in winter — so it’s appropriate now that summer is officially in full swing and the garden is bursting with roses, that we should sing the virtues of pink wines, and start to drink more of them.

Whether we like to admit it or not, a glass of sweet white Zinfandel has probably passed under our noses at some point, and while there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, white zin isn’t the only rosé wine available. Frankly there are many better examples out there and now is the ideal time to find them.

In only a decade the popularity of South American wine has created a vino superpower.

In the dim-lit corners of stuffy clubs, wine gurus are whispering. It’s not very often something happens that can temporarily shift their chattering from biodynamics and malolactic fermentation to something the rest of us would care about. It’s been a decade since the Aussie invasion and even though we’ve never been invited to a stuffy club, we know South America is all the buzz.