Pale dry rose
Two to eight hours of skin contact and then made exactly like a white: cold, protected and bottled young. Colour is a decision, not a by-product.
The numbers
Each bar drawn against all 30 styles
Alcohol
12-13.5%
12% - 13.5%
Titratable acidity
5.5-7 g/L
5.5 - 7
pH
3.1-3.4
3.1 - 3.4
Residual sugar
0-4 g/L
0 - 4
Serve at
8-10 C
Worth opening after
3 months
and it keeps improving to roughly 2 years
Sulphite at pH 3.25
23 mg/L
free SO2, for 0.8 mg/L molecular
What goes wrong
Leaving it on the skins overnight because it was convenient. The colour goes from onion skin to strawberry in an hour or two and never comes back.
No legal definition sets these figures. They are typical published analyses of commercial examples, compiled as a planning aid.
Make it
A recipe on this site made to this style
Every figure below is computed from the ingredients and checked against the ranges above before the page is built.
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