I really, truly enjoyed this lovely book about rosé wine. I had been exploring rosé while planning some posts and content related specifically to this bubbly drink. After looking up several books on the subject, there really isn't another book that goes into as much detail as this one. I was especially interested in the pages devoted to Miraval wine (my favorite rosé) and I was not disappointed. I've already bought this book as a gift for a friend, and I think it would make an especially fun Galentine's Day present.

I'm not knowledgeable about wine, but I do prefer it to beer. So when I saw this book, I thought it was a good time to learn a little bit more about rosé, which I didn't even realise was a separate category (I thought it was a little bit like champagne rather than a third category).

Basically, rosé can be made many different ways. You can use red grapes, you can use white grapes and red grapes and you can basically mix them in a bunch of different ways. And that's everything that I got out of the technical aspect. I will probably have to reread that section.

After the first chapter, which talks about the history what makes rosé, rosé, the book goes into detail on the different regions that produce the wine, as well as the recommended wines from each region. There's a helpful price guide, so if you're budget conscious, you can just look for the single $ sign wines and ignore the rest. Unfortunately, there isn't a list of all the names of wines categorised by price, but there is a list of top 5 wines for each price range, which could be helpful. The book also has a list of websites that you can buy rosé from, though I don't know which countries it sells to.

If you're interested in drinking more rosé and/or learning about it, I think this book will be a helpful guide. Even if you don't want to learn about its history, you could use the rest of the book as a guide to picking out wines.

Disclaimer: I got a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review.

Even when they were not very popular, I have been a huge fan of dry rose wines. I would search them out at restaurants and in wine shops. Long before they became trendy, I loved them, in large part because they are so great with food.

Long (and often still) ignored by wine experts, pink wines have been popular throughout the world and for centuries. Historically this wine was drunk close to home and often not exported. It is, in spite of all its current trendiness, a wine made to go with food. It's also a wine of astonishing variety in grapes used, wine-making techniques, color, and flavor.

In Cole's book rose gets its first serious treatment and it is a delightful one. The book captures the spectrum of pink wines really well. Divided into geographic chapters, the charmingly-illustrated book goes over pink wine-making regions and highlights particular areas, vintners, and wines. I loved her witty descriptions of wines and her wittier descriptions of the characteristics of pink wines from different areas.

Very helpful to the reader are the price ratings of each wine and the pictures of wine bottles and labels at the end of each chapter. It's so helpful to know what to look for.

On top of all this fantastic information, there are helpful top five lists and a list of on-line wine merchants as well as a bibliography at the end of the book.

Let the summer drinking begin!

A lovely and accessible resource for both those brand new to rose and those who have been dabbling. It provides a brief history of rose wine, its origins, and its place in pop culture.
Cole offers rose recommendations from every region of the world, both local and exotic, and shrugs off the snobbish attitudes so often prevalent in other discussions of wine, to emphasize that rose can be both affordable and accessible to individuals on a variety of budgets.

This book had a great amount of history included as to how Rose as a wine came about and also how it became popular, there was much more history there than I ever realized. I also didn’t realize there was quite so many variations of Rose from the different regions of the world. This is, again, not something that you can retain all the information from but is a great reference text for a Rose lover.

Good book if you like Rose wine. Tells the history of Rose wine.

Rosé All Day The Essential Guide to Your New Favorite Wine
by Katherine Cole is a book that will be released by ABRAMS on April 11.


What is rosé? It's a kind of wine that we can say it's not red and it's not white. For this reason it is not very known and mainly not particularly chosen by people during parties, feasts, lunches or dinner.

Discriminated, no one had previously written a book telling us everything we wanted to know about the rosé but we didn't have the courage to asking for :-) it's clear that the rosé is loved, and massively produced - thanks also to the good weather - in France with 39% of consumers and the USA. At the end of this list Italy.

The author will start to tell us the story from the old centuries to our days of rosé and the methods for the creation of wine not forgetting history with the main differences we could find now between a glass of wine drunk by Plato and the one drunk by us.

It's a beautiful and fascinating historic book about a wine, the rosé with a turbulent life, and in most cases during History defeated by its cousins White and Red.

You will learn which are the diversified colors of rosé, its 100 fragrances, from allspice to yeast.

It's a technical book plenty of suggestions, advice, and lot of history, with the great invitation of discovering the rosé around Europe, mainly in North and South France. Italy, Spain and Portugal, USA.


Highly recommended for all wine lovers.


I thank NetGalley and ABRAMS for this book.

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I do believe the content is 5-star worthy, and the illustrations very much so as well; but just so you guys know, personally I think the layout decision made this book slightly hard to read, so if taking that into consideration, I'd make it a 4.5 because it made me unable to fully enjoy the book. That being said, this book is so gorgeous and informative, so a 5 is well-deserved nonetheless.

Who knew rose is as fun to read about as it is to drink?! Loved it. Perfect hostess gift.