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Rose Wine Great with Chocolate for Valentine's Day
Aired February 14, 2002 - 06:50 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, as promised, we are going to try to help you out of your Valentine's Day dilemma. Come on, face it, you don't have a clue what you're going to give your sweetie today, right? Well, we brought in wine expert Maureen Petrosky to give you some ideas.
These are roses.
MAUREEN PETROSKY, WINE EXPERT: Yes.
COSTELLO: And I must be honest, I don't especially like them, but maybe I've just not had a good one.
PETROSKY: Well there's all different types. Rose is really a style of wine. It's a red grape that's only -- when the juices are pressed, they're only in contact with the skin for a short period of time to get that rose color so it has the characteristics of a white wine with the colors are red.
COSTELLO: But it doesn't taste like a white zinfandel, right?
PETROSKY: No, it doesn't. White zinfandel is traditionally a blush wine, and although they're done the same, blush...
COSTELLO: Come on, be a wine (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
PETROSKY: ... wines tend to be sweeter than roses. These are going to be dry table wines.
COSTELLO: Oh, so they're not sweet?
PETROSKY: No.
COSTELLO: So what food do they go with?
PETROSKY: They go great with chocolate, and that's why it's great for Valentine's Day.
COSTELLO: Oh, OK.
PETROSKY: These wines can pair with salads, things like prosciutto and figs, really delicate foods where it's something that's sweet goes with these because they're dry and it's a nice balance.
COSTELLO: Well something else nice about roses too, they're cheaper than let's say a cabernet would be.
PETROSKY: They're less expensive because they're not as popular. It doesn't mean that they're not as good. Expensive wines may mean there's less available or that they are popular and that's why the prices go up.
COSTELLO: So what's a good price to pay for a rose?
PETROSKY: Well we have roses here that range in price from $5 to $22.
COSTELLO: And what's the difference between the $5 variety and the $22 variety?
PETROSKY: Often it just depends, again, on the availability, but the $5 that we have today, the Rene Barbia (ph), is an excellent rose table wine. Here this is a Banfre (ph) product that is actually not a traditional rose but it is red in color so it's great for the holiday also.
COSTELLO: Is there a wide variety of these roses in wine stores?
PETROSKY: They're becoming more and more available because they are, again, regaining popularity so you want to keep your eye open. And you can still get great deals on them and that's why they're a great wine to buy.
COSTELLO: You don't see them on menus in restaurants at all -- like not at all.
PETROSKY: Not often. Usually they'll only carry one or maybe two.
COSTELLO: OK, so when you go into the wine store and you're looking for a rose for your honey, what are some good questions to ask the wine store merchant so you can purchase the best rose for your sweetie?
PETROSKY: Exactly. Well depending on the style of wine that you like, if you like something sweet or dry, they're the best people to ask because most likely they have tasted every single thing that's come into their store. So that's the first thing, if it's sweet or dry. And then if you wanted to do something bubbly, you can go that way or stay with the still wines.
COSTELLO: I was going to ask you about that because this one's fizzing and it looks like red champagne. Does it taste sort of like it?
PETROSKY: It's -- well it has the characteristics of champagne and it's very bubbly and fun. It is made in the method champ and was (ph) style, so just like a traditional champagne, but again, it is exposed to those skins so that it gets that red color.
COSTELLO: Got you. Let me smell it. I can't drink this early in the morning. CHAD MYERS, METEOROLOGIST: Oh sure you can.
COSTELLO: Oh sure I can. Chad can, he's been drinking all morning long.
MYERS: Hey.
COSTELLO: No, just -- Chad, do you like roses?
MYERS: You know I've never had one. I don't know. I don't even know if...
COSTELLO: Well get over here.
PETROSKY: Well come on over.
MYERS: I don't know if I like them or not.
COSTELLO: Come on over, Chad.
PETROSKY: You open these (ph) and the nose of these wines you're going to get a lot of ripe berries, strawberries, raspberries, mulberries even and it's something different and fun for (UNINTELLIGIBLE) holiday.
COSTELLO: Come on, Chad.
MYERS: What (UNINTELLIGIBLE) grape are they coming from? I mean what are they pressing?
PETROSKY: They come from all different grapes, again, depending on where they're from in the world. If it's somewhere in the south of France, it could be from the moreveger (ph) grape or if it's say the Spanish one, it would be granacha (ph) or something like that.
COSTELLO: OK. So we're going to taste. We've got to wrap up now, but I think the best Valentine's Day present would be a rose...
PETROSKY: And a box of chocolates.
COSTELLO: ... box of chocolates, flowers and diamonds.
MYERS: Well there you go.
PETROSKY: Well if you don't have the money for diamonds, stick with the roses.
MYERS: Roses (UNINTELLIGIBLE) diamonds are forever, right?
COSTELLO: That's right.
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