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FOXNews.com
The heat is on, and what better way to quench your thirst this summer than with a great glass of wine --or two. Light, crisp and fruity are best suited for poolside sipping and pairing with the season’s lighter cuisine. So save the heavy, tannic wines for the cooler months and try these six summer selections from some of our favorite wine-producing families: Elena Walch Castel Ringberg Pinot Grigio, Alto Adige, Italy, 2013 $22 Elena Walch is a leading wine producer in the Alto Adige region of northeastern Italy who runs her eponymous winery with the help of her two daughters, Julia and Karoline. Together they produce a variety of acclaimed wines and are known for their innovative winemaking techniques. This wine is 100 percent pinot grigio from the Castel Ringberg vineyard and a majority of the wine is fermented in stainless steel while a small percentage is fermented in used small French oak barrels. The result is a lovely incarnation of the pinot grigio grape with ripe aromas of pear, sage and spice with a creamy mouthfeel, zippy acidity and lengthy, clean finish.
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Date: 7/28/2015 Online Audience: 7,522,952 Page Count: 1/2
Bloomberg Business
In the world of wine, rosé has come to hog the American summer like a clingy neighbor on your chaise lounge. Stroll into any summer yard party, outdoor wedding, or lawn concert, check out the wine glasses held in manicured hands, and you’ll see more pink than at a prep school reunion. Now, nothing against rosé per se. Fine examples abound. But those bracingly crisp bottles from Provence and quality Spanish rosados are often lost in a salmon-colored sea of insipid, consumerbaiting quaffers chosen more on price than merit. “$9.99? I’ll take three!” When summer ends, the rosé craze is packed away until next year. It’s Beaujolais Nouveau, déjà vu.
In terms of taste—in both its forms—breaking the mold with good wine always beats going with the flow of mediocre bottles. Delicious white wines, born for summer refreshment, huddle on shelves in favor of mass-produced rosés that bring little to a perspiring party, aside from a splash of color.
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Bloomberg Business And who ever said you can’t drink Cabernet Sauvignon in summer? Certainly, 100-degree, prisonriot heat and an inky-rich, alcohol-laced red aren’t the ideal combination. But there’s a vast, wonderful world of lighter, fresher reds that remains largely overlooked as the mercury climbs. They occupy a sliding scale of familiarity, from trusty Pinot Noir to Italy’s fast-rising Barbera from the towns of Alba or Asti.
Well, enough of the seasonal monomania. Carve out a space for these warm-weather bottles
farther along the color spectrum, most party-friendly at under $20. Just keep that pesky neighbor from guzzling more than his share.
The hills are definitely alive in the Alto Adige, Italy’s northernmost growing region in the limestone-rich Dolomites, whose wines reflect the region’s effortless blending of German and Italian culture. Erste + Neue, an up-and-coming wine collective, makes some dandies, including a straw-yellow Pinot Bianco (or Weissburgunder auf Deutsch)that’s all herbs and Granny Smith apples, a mountain meadow in a glass. $15