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When red and white wine sales are steadily dwindling around Europe, what could the answer be? The EU says we can mix them together to make rosé.

Rosé wine has been produced for decades all around the world and there are a number of different ways to produce it, all of which take great care and refined processes. The most common way is to follow the “nobler” tradition of crushing red grapes and bleeding the red colouring, or tannin, from the mixture before it can stain into the wine. This produces a lovely rose-coloured appearance and a light glow.

Brussels have had another idea for making the very popular rosé wine and it is a little more crude. They have put forward a proposition to make the wine by taking white wine (around 95%) and mixing in a little red wine until the mixture takes on a pinkish look. On April 27th a draft EU plan will be put to a final vote and would allow the new type of wine to be produced and sold anywhere in Europe

Wine makers in Provence, where the majority of France’s rosé wine is currently made are outraged. Many of them feel that the producers of red and white wine in Europe are selling out since white wine sales have been overtaken by rosé in France. It is easy to see why people would want to be in the business of selling rosé wine at the moment as its popularity is at an all time high. Rosé wine rack up a figure of 22% of total wine sales in France currently.

Experts however believe that the new blended wine will not catch on in the way producers hope. Most suggest that rosé wine has earned it’s subtle flavours and distinctive qualities through painstaking experimenting and developing of advanced methods. Fake rosé cannot match these standards they suggest