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Posh pink: how rosé wine was rehabilitated

13/6/2015

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Provençal rosé, once dismissed as a girly tipple, is now recognised as a serious summer essential.
By Victoria Moore, Telegraph
In a wine shop – the beautifully named Philglas & Swiggot – on Northcote Road in Clapham, south-west London, on a Friday evening in May, a bullish young man in a neck brace is explaining his injuries.

“Rugby. No, I’m not a forward, I’m a fly half. I’ve lost 18kg since this happened.” He hovers expectantly over the table where a tasting of gorgeous old Barossa wines is taking place, then swings over to the fridge, eventually departing with the voluptuous curves of a couple of bottles of ballet-pump-pale Domaine Ott Bandol rosé – £30.95 a pop – tucked under his chunky arm.

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