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.

More clarification on some of the most popular myths surrounding wine

For more interesting wine fallacies, read Wine Mythology: Part 1

Knowledge is power right? When it comes to wine, that’s especially true, so here are six more common myths that need setting straight. So the next time some server or oenophile tries to intimidate you (and you know they will!) you’ll have an army of info to fight back with. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.