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Cline Mouvèdre rosé ($12) California

Welcome to the 10th annual Advocate rosé column, where — despite the changes in the wine business over the past decade and even though the wine wise guys insist that rising prices are just around the corner — you can still buy a pretty good rosé for $10.

In this, rosé is close to the perfect cheap wine. It’s fresh and easy to drink, pairs with almost any kind of food, and its style means that it’s easier to make well than cheap red wines. What else do you need to know about rosé?

pink wines made with red grapes, and they they pink? Because the red grape skins left in the fermenting grape juice just long enough to color wine (which is how all wine gets its color, actually).

Rosés be served chilled, and if you put an ice cube in, no one

Look for 2011, and be careful with anydated before 2010. Rosés are not made to age, and go bad should you drink? The Yalumba ($10) is an Ausrosé with flavors of mango and lemon, believe it not, and just 11.5 percent alcohol. It’s as close to a World rosé as you’re going to find. The Mouvèdre ($12) is one of the best California I’ve tasted in years, bone dry and not much (maybe some cranberry) and a longish mineral more French in style than Californian. The ($10) is one of my all-time favorites, made one of Italy’s great producers, with strawberry soft elegance.

—Jeff

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Why don’t Americans drink more rosé?

Siegel

o reasons: The y con f use it with t e zinfandel , and think it’s sweet. th e y d on’t t h in k it’s rea l wine, m ethin g inferior to a red wine. It iff erent, o f course, but it’s su pe d to be — bri g ht fruit and no ni n s.

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—Jeff Siegel