Shimmering Schiller: German-speaking Rosé Gets Its Day

Germany offers a surprising array of rose wine styles. Elizabeth Gabay MW explores them here.
Germany offers a surprising array of rose wine styles. Elizabeth Gabay MW explores them here.
While others were busy “drinking pink,” Elizabeth Gabay, MW was writing the definitive and praise-winning work on it in her comprehensive book “Rosé: Understanding the Pink Wine Revolution” from Classic Wine Library. A regular in the trade since 1986, she received her Master of Wine in 1998. Her specialist interests include the Mediterranean and Central Europe. She has lived in southeast France on the Italian border for nearly twenty years.
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