Youthful, easygoing, and approachable. A burst of Fuji apple, bubblegum, and starfruit dance along to a smooth, rich finish carried by an herbal mintiness. Beautiful pale salmon color, high acid, and focused. While the fruit conveys a light, fresh style the body has a slight strawberry and cream component that broadens its complexity. Brooks has long been known as Pinot Noir specialists, so it only makes sense that this stunner of a wine is 100% Pinot Noir.

A super-light-colored rosé that looks like a white wine. Light-bodied but exuberant with fresh berry, peach and melon flavors and bright acidity underneath. Made from Grenache, Zinfandel (of course) and Cinsault as well as other early-picked grape varieties on the Ridge Sonoma County property. The palate is fresh and clean with a superb texture and nice sense of weight. Showing excellent flinty undertones, enjoy now and over the next few years.

Textured and savory while being bright and crisp may sound like a contradiction, but Roberto Conterno is the kind of winemaker who seems capable of producing impossibly complex wines that are increddibly satisfying and delicious. Made from 100% Nebbiolo grown on the Cantine Nervi estate in Gattinara, this wine bursts forth with elements of strawberry, tart peach, rose petals, and a powerful streak of minerality. Always one of the absolute best roses every year.

The aroma is unmistakable. The electric burst of citrus, delicate notes of rhubarb and peach, and raspy suggestions of anise and wild thyme are not just textbook Bandol; they are signature Tempier. That herbaceous bite gives it verve in its youth and the backbone to age like few other rosés can. A saline sensation accents its savory character, alluding to sparkly Mediterranean waters close by. Tempier’s rosé, fifty years later, remains a benchmark for the region and the style. The taste is just what it always has been: a liquid incarnation of Provence that satisfies without fail each time the cork is pulled. Now that’s pretty cool.

José Luis Ripa Sáenz de Navarrete has seen the ins and outs of Rioja and knows its wine making history like no one else, having worked for many years with some of the most reputable houses in the region (full disclosure, he is married to Maria Jose Lopez de Heredia). He makes just one wine, this aged rosé from a hectare of vines in the Najerilla Valley, in Rioja Alta. It’s primarily Garnacha with a small amount of Tempranillo. This is complex, layered and finely spiced with nuts, spice and marmalade, as well as some citrus notes. Very detailed with a wonderful savory quality, as well as some taut citrus fruit, a touch of pear skin, and also some cherry hints. It has been dubbed the new Tondonio rosé.