Who it’s for: Rosé fans ready to keep drinking it year-round and home cooks planning fall menus.
The pale, easy-drinking Provençal style dominates the rosé conversation from May through August and then rosé quietly disappears. It should not. There is a whole other side to the category built for the second half of the year: darker, richer, more textured wines with the weight and structure to hold up alongside cooler weather and the food that comes with it.
We taste through fall-appropriate rosés from around the wine world, both still and sparkling. Expect wines with more color, more depth, and more to say than the summer standard. Along the way we cover why some rosés are built for the porch and others are built for the table, and how to shop the category once you know what you actually want.