Brown Brothers Refreshingly Light Rose 2020
- 88
- $20
- Drink by: 2021 - 2023
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Low alcohol wines can achieve some lovely delicacy of flavour. It’s what they probably do best. So, rose is a given as a suitable recruit.
Great colour in a light raspberry blush-cum-rose-gold. It immediately catches the eye and the tastebuds follow.
Here’s where the forementioned delicacy comes into play. The aromas of cranberry, cherry and light florals are inviting and pretty. The palate fills with strawberry and cherry flavours and a touch of confectionery, like fairy floss, that dissolves in the mouth, and then finishes clean.
It’s interesting to note that 9% alcohol is seen as the sweet spot (or maybe that should be light spot) that wine producers in both Australia and New Zealand strive for. The interplay of alcohol, sugar and acid in grapes is a fine balancing act. This new range from Brown Brothers highlights that balancing act nicely. Expect to see and hear more about this wine style.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
