Oh, sure, the week I go on vacation is the week there’s a hiccup in the sommelier. (No pun intended.) But I should have known the dedicated SDMB winos would soldier on and overcome – it about moves me to tears of pride. 
Thank you for picking up the slack, flickster, psycat, and Necros.
I’m off to try to locate the Adelsheim Rose. Hope my fellow Americans had a great Independence day week, and the non-USA’ers had a great week too.
Wow, I am surprised everyone seems to be striking out on finding this wine. I thought that with me being able to locate it in multiple liquor stores, it might be ok. Sorry, all. But it seems like you have found good replacements! psycat90, I am especially interested in what you think of the Sinskey…
No dice on the Adelsheim here in NC. I think I’ll bow out for this week. Enjoy, everyone!
I’m going to check out BevMo in San Jose either today or tomorrow and see what they have. I was in the local Safeway this weekend (they have a very good wine selection) and they had exactly 1 Rosé, buried amongst the White Zins. I figured I’d let that one stay where it was.
Ditto. I’ll hit Bevmo in a bit, but so far the rosé front is looking mighty bleak around here.
2006 Robert Sinskey Vin Gris of Pinot Noir
I drank it yesterday while cleaning house, then paired what was left with my dinner of fish tacos. It matched perfectly.
The color didn’t impress me, it looked like a watered down rosé or a white with a drop of food coloring, but I was more interested in the taste than the color anyway.
I liked the aromas - strawberries, grapefruit, lemon, and I liked the flavors - more grapefruit, melon, a little cranberry, and the tiniest bit of vanilla. Nice, bright acidity and a clean finish. Great summer wine.
I did pick up another Rosé and drank that one on Saturday. 2006 Soter - from Oregon. It was also a pretty nice wine. Grapefruit, cherries, strawberries, with a little more weight to it and a gorgeous pink color.
I’ll probably open another one tonight, though I don’t know which one yet.
I found the Toad Hollow Rose at World Market. Circumstances intervened with trying it out this weekend, but I will shoot for tonight to open it up.
According to the web site the wholesaler in S. Florida sells to our little local wine store run by the nice french man. I’m going to have a look over there and see if he has it. If he doesn’t maybe he’ll order it for me.
My husband and I just finished a lovely french rose’ from Provence that was just delicious. We are big fans of rose’ so I can’t wait to try this one. I’m going to the wine shop tomorrow.
Hey, this is supposed to be a wine club. You can’t post something like that and not tell us what it was!! 
OK, I have a huge F’ing problem. Due to the fact that I keep finding more and more “must haves” to keep on-hand, I am going to need to remodel so I can increase my wine storage capacity 
This would have been much simpler when we lived in an area where houses came with basements, so all donations will be accepted 
As you have probably guessed from the above statement, I really liked my alternate selection, the Kestrel Rose. Not too dry, but not sweet either. Nice citrus tones with the dominant being grapefruit. The color was a nice medium blush tone that didn’t give you the impression of being “washed out”. I will be keeping more of this in stock, at least for the summer, which last forever in Houston.
So, at first I was bummed that people couldn’t find this wine. But now I think it’s great because, as a rose fan, I now have a bunch of things other people have found to try! I will definitely be searching for flickster’s substitute, and hope to hear good things about longhair75’s Toad Hollow.
I am also extremely happy that I could get people drinking roses, since I love them. Not as much as Champagne or a great Sauternes, but they are up there. Plus, I don’t think the SDMB Wine Club would think much of my recommending a $500 Yquem.
No go at BevMo.
But they had the Toad Hollow, so I got that. $8.99.
I picked up a bottle of Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, too, since that was a recommendation a few times ago-- I’ve had great success with NZ SBs from the Marlborough region, and I’d heard this one mentioned in other places as well. Ok, OK, I actually bought a whole case of various wines while I was there perusing their selection. They have a pretty good variety of wines from other countries, which is nice because many wine shops around here focus almost exclusively on CA wines.
Great Dave’s earlier suggestion of a lighter wine seems to have been shared by all of us. I had previously picked up a few rosés, one from Provence, and after John Mace’s linked article, picked up a bottle of rosé from our old friend Marques de Caceres. Unfortunately, no luck with Necros’ pick. Adelsheim yes, but not their rosé, and the Sinskey rosé doesn’t seem to be available, either. If anyone can suggest a Pinot Noir rosé from Willamette Valley that seems to be widely available, I’ll check it out.
I just wanted to briefly thank you for that explanation and for the links. Unfortunately, the only chemistry I took in High School… Well, that’s a story for another forum and it was the '60s after all. However, I liken your post to the research I did when I brewed beer. Any knowledge is good, and I like to think that a little understanding deepens the appreciation.
ETA: Oh, and yay! Two pages already, and the reviews haven’t even started.
No thanks needed. I actually enjoy trying to answer questions here, it helps me to research and study even more than I already am.
I’ve got another rosé in the fridge for tonight!
I’m so sorry. We usually write the outstanding ones in our little wine diary but this one we didn’t and the bottle has long been hauled away in the trash.
I’ll try and do better…I promise!
I have the second glass of the Eye of the Toad 2006 Sonoma County dry pinot noir rose on the desk at my elbow as I type this. I don’t really care much for Pinot. The few bottles I have tried had a bitter, rather sour taste. The Toad Hollow is the exception. it has a nice light fruity taste. It has been real hot here of late, and I find the chilled wine odd. but pleasant.
An earlier choice of this club was a sparkling white wine from Toad Hollow. This makes two in a row from that winery that I have liked.
As I understand it, The owner of the Toad Hollow Winery is the brother of Robin Williams.
Drinking the Toad Hollow with dinner now. Dinner = salmon*, rice and asparagus. Wow, this is a super dry Rosé! It was a little off-putting at first, since it seems to have virtually no residual sugar. Very citrusy, but not much of a lingering taste. It’s an austere wine that might take some getting used to. The Rosé I drink the most of is Testarossa which is more fruity and light. That one has a some more complex flavors, but it’s a lot more expensive, too.
Glass #3 is much different, and much better (IMHO). Maybe the first two were at too low a temperature. This one seems to have more of a flowery, spicy taste to it with a nice finish. I probably didn’t let it come up to temperature enough before I started sipping.
*poached in a lemon/rosé wine combo.
I figure I’d better post about the Adelsheim Rose as I’ve had the opportunity to taste it (being Necros’s wife). For me the thing I like best about it is how balanced it is - it really tastes like a wine right between a white and a red. Since I’m a big red drinker, and Necros really likes whites, I find this one to be a good compromise. I also like that it’s not sweet like other “pink” wines (I hadn’t tried a rose before earlier this year, only the awful white zins) and love the fruity undertones. I believe roses are some of the perfect summer wines and am very excited to see the trend of more dry roses being offered by some very good wineries and look forward to trying several of the ones posted previously in this thread.
I’m so glad to hear that I am not the only person who feels this way, Sideways notwithstanding. I’d had that same reaction to some lesser priced bottles, but still felt the same after a bottle of Au Bon Climat, which has a reputation for a very good Pinot Noir. I also have a bottle of La Crema at home, but (truth to tell) have been a bit reluctant to open the bottle when there are so many other wines that I am certain I will like. But, that is good news about the Toad Hollow, and I’ll give it a try.
I’ve seen you talk about this before, and that residual sugar does not necessarily correlate to sweetness (or did I get that wrong?). Is there any simple way to explain this to a newbie?
It’s a matter of balance. If the residual sugar is balanced with the appropriate level of acidity, it doesn’t necessarily taste “sweet” in the same way that a sugary, low-acid wine would. In fact, you may find that even “dry”, low-acid white wines will taste sweeter than a wine that has the right balance of acid and residual sugar. There’s a actually decent article about this in Wikipedia: Sweetness of Wine.
BTW, I drink the La Crema Pinot all the time-- it’s one of my favorites. But if you don’t like Pinot in general, you probably won’t like that one either. Try it, though. You never know!