Always about this time of year I find myself with some rosé which I haven't finished. I kind of lose interest in it after it cools off. Is it something that won't be good a year later if I just store it through the winter?

I'm not looking to buy past vintages come summer, I'm always looking for the new releases.

Also, I don't know whether it matters, but my adventures with rosé haven't gone beyond those from the south of France.

The roses of Tavel actually age better than most others of the world, so I'd treat it like a white wine. 3 days tops.

Three days for an unopened bottle?

Pretty tight drinking window there.

I have one that I'm interested in so I put a couple bottles in the cellar last year and we'll see. But that's the exception. With some of them you can even see the color shift by the time spring rolls around the next year.

It's like anything else - it depends. How many cheap whites hold up? Yet some whites age beautifully. Most rosado is made to be like the cheap whites, not like the Chablis.

Just about any decent Rosé will be fine cellared for another year.

Some of the burly ones, based on Carigane, Malbec,
Mourvedre, and/or Syrah could even be better.

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Originally posted by GregT:

It's like anything else - it depends. How many cheap whites hold up? Yet some whites age beautifully. Most rosado is made to be like the cheap whites, not like the Chablis.

Greg,

I can't think of any white wines that I would be interested in drinking that would not hold up to a year in the cellar.
The same goes for most Rosé. You lose a bit of the fresh fruit, but the wine mellows in compensation. The exceptions are versions lacking in acidity.

I like my Rosé fresh and young. Put last year's along side the current release and I'll almost always go for the younger of the two.* Same with Sauvignon Blanc.

*Does not apply to bubbly

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Originally posted by GregT:
It's like anything else - it depends.

Absolutely!

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Originally posted by pape du neuf:
Just about any decent Rosé will be fine cellared for another year.

Some of the burly ones, based on Carigane, Malbec,
Mourvedre, and/or Syrah could even be better.

Or even some of the less burly ones, like Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Rosé Brut.

There are no general answers here, although most often I wouldn't go over a year. Still, which wine(s) are you asking about?

Champagne's a different animule!

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Originally posted by GregT:
Three days for an unopened bottle?

Pretty tight drinking window there.

I have one that I'm interested in so I put a couple bottles in the cellar last year and we'll see. But that's the exception. With some of them you can even see the color shift by the time spring rolls around the next year.

It's like anything else - it depends. How many cheap whites hold up? Yet some whites age beautifully. Most rosado is made to be like the cheap whites, not like the Chablis.

Ooo, I took it as how fast will it fade once opened.

I have a small collection of 2005 Bordeaux rose that's dead now and has been for probably a year or so.

Today, it depends on the Rose, but my preferences are; I don't buy Rose often, but when I do, it is a quality Rose, I don't buy for cellaring, I pop & pour, usually during the summer.

Now if you go back to my Lancer & Mateus days, I didn't have much of a Rose Code!

I try to drink them within a year of release. If I ever questioned this line of thinking, it was reinforced last spring. Friends brought a magnum of 2006 Pax Syrah Rose just after their twin daughters were born.

I was pretty exited as the new mother had made pulling the wine verboten both times while she was pregnant, which is how a 2006 ended up sitting until May 2009.

The nose was still promising, but the wine was more or less blah. Tragedy. I have yet to taste a rose that I didn't think "drink now" would be appropriate.

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Originally posted by GregT:
Three days for an unopened bottle?

Pretty tight drinking window there.

Drinking a Kosta Browne '06 Rose right now that is 1000 times better than on release. No trace of heat and drinking very lovely...now if we could get our temps here in Ojai down below 94 degrees I would be happy!!

There are some exceptions, but most rosés are best drunk within a year. But there's no harm in drinking your leftover bottles next spring. That'll keep you busy until the new releases hit the shelves.

Two examples of rosés that can do with a bit of age are Niepoort (Douro, Portugal) and Chateau Musar (Bekaa, Lebanon).

When I worked at Napa Valley Grille here we had some rose on the list and some didn't move at all and went to fire sale for employees after a few years of not selling and they were fading.