Choosing the Right English Rosé for Your Summer Parties
Strawberries and cream, bacon and eggs, summer days and rosé: some things were just made for each other. If you’re looking for a perfect pairing for a friendly gathering in these warmer days, then choosing the right English rosé for your summer parties is an absolute must. English rosé, with its characteristic crisp, fresh and fruity style, is the perfect bedfellow for summer picnic dishes, warm weather and good company. Here’s how to choose the right English rosé for your summer parties.
Understanding English Rosé
History and Popularity:
We all know about the incredible quality of our nation’s sparkling wines, but of late English still wines are rightly enjoying their time in the spotlight due to their pleasingly light, refreshing style and use of exciting grape varieties.
English winemakers, like Chapel Down, are winning prizes up against the very best producers from around the world for our wines - and with the surging popularity of rosé, choosing the right English rosé for your summer parties will set you apart as a discerning tastemaker among your friends and family.
So what does English Rosé taste like?
English rosé wine is typically characterised by a light, crisp and fresh palate with appealing notes of quintessential English summer fruits like strawberries and raspberries, an ideal wine for enjoying during the warm weather.
Chapel Down English Rosé
Without blowing our own trumpet too much, we really think that our Chapel Down English Rose is a belter of a rosé with irresistible aromas of raspberries, strawberries and cream. It’s got that light, fresh style we all love in a rosé, with just enough refreshing acidity to make it an ideal wine for pairing with food; a key consideration when choosing the right English rosé for your summer parties.
How to choose the right rosé
Consider the Occasion:
It’s worth thinking about the nature of the event you’re hosting this summer, as it might have some bearing on the style of rosé you choose to serve.
For instance, a summer barbecue or garden party might be better suited to a light, fresh and fruity rosé, while a formal dinner might call for a more complex style, or even some sparkling wine for toasting.
Pairing with Food:
Rosé, and particularly English rosé, is a joy to pair with food due to its pleasing acidity and fresh, fruity flavours (link to English Rose tasting video).
For a knockout garden party, pair English rosé with a fresh, zingy salad, or for a barbecue your guests will be dreaming about for weeks, grill shellfish and barbecue meats for a match made in heaven for Chapel Down English Rose, which cuts through the umami of such dishes beautifully with its crisp, refreshing palate.
Serving Tips:
When you’re choosing the right English rosé for your summer parties, you’ll want to consider things like serving temperature and glassware to enhance your experience of the wine further still.
As a crisp, refreshing style of wine, English rosé is best served lightly chilled - think between 8-12°C – making it an ideal choice for warmer weather. As we all know and love, rose wines are pretty easy on the eye with their gorgeous pink hues, so serve your wine in transparent long-stemmed wine glasses to make the most of the view.
Enhancing Your Summer Party with Rosé
Rosé-adjacent fun:
If you’re going big with a pink theme for your summer party, adding a welcome drink such as a gin and tonic made with pink gin or a Paloma cocktail will really bring the whole thing together nicely. You could even add a Touch of Sparkle to the party with our new pink fizz (link to ATOS pink product page) for a lightly effervescent refresher during the afternoon.
Decorating with Rosé:
Choosing English roses as an ideal visual accompaniment to the beautiful pink hues of the wine you’re serving is a great place to start. Roses and rosé: what’s not to love? Flowers in a complimentary colour scheme to the wine is a really neat way of bringing everything together; add some rustic wooden tableware and a gingham table cloth and you’ve got yourself the classiest garden party in town.
Activities and Games:
If your party is themed around rosé, why not challenge your guests to see who can create the dish that pairs best with the wine you’ve chosen? Or, if you have an array of different rosés on offer, set up a blind tasting and see who can correctly identify the English rosé among the selection.
Conclusion:
Choosing the right English rosé is a surefire way to get tongues wagging and palates pleased at your summer party. A wine perfectly suited to pairing with summer food, Chapel Down English Rose is a wonderful choice to keep your guests refreshed and replete on those beautiful English summer days we’ve all been looking forward to so much. Celebrate every big little moment this summer with Chapel Down’s range of rose wine
