Rosé

The wine

This is a weekday Provence pour: well chilled in a white-wine glass, crisp enough for lunch or an early evening when you want pink wine without ceremony. Fresh strawberry and white peach lead the aroma, dry and stony rather than candy-sweet — fruit that invites the next sip instead of a dessert glass.

In the pour it stays lean. Red berry fruit sits over a mineral spine; bright acidity does the work a fuller Provence rosé would get from weight. The shape holds even as the body thins. Dry through the middle, no candy swell, the stony edge keeping strawberry and white peach from turning soft-drink pink.

The close is dry, brief, and citrus-tinged — no lingering sweetness to argue with the mineral line. Pour it when the occasion is simple and the glass should stay refreshing: strawberry and white peach on entry, lean red berry through the sip, citrus-dry on the way out. Built for the table rather than for study, honest about how little flesh remains once the fruit and acid have spoken. Weekday pink — dry, lean, bright, ready for the next pour. Bright acidity is the spine here; dry strawberry and white peach are the mood of the pour.