This article in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper talks about how Rose wine has become so popular in France it now outsells white wine. That’s quite an achievement. If anything should convince skeptics to try pink wine, this is it. As the article points out, it’s the dry and sophisticated roses that have accounted for this surge in sales, not the sweet (or more likely, sweetened) “blush” wines that have given pink wine a bad name in this country. The trend to drink rose wine seems to have not hit this part of the country yet. We at kybecca would certainly like to do our part to change that. Here are a few of the most common objections I hear to drinking pink wine and how I would respond:
Rose wines are too sweet Actually there are two things wrong with this. First, there’s nothing wrong with sweet wine. But more importantly most roses that are produced worldwide are not sweet. This stereotype has to do with people’s association between pink wine and white zinfandel. Roses from France, Italy, and Spain are rarely sweet. Even here in Virginia there are plenty of nice dry roses. Kluge Estates and Linden Vineyards in particular make very nice ones.
I don’t drink pink wine This is like saying ‘I don’t eat yellow food’. There’s nothing that links these wines together other than the fact they are pink and are wine. So it doesn’t make sense to reject a wine based on color.
I’ve never liked any rose wines I’ve ever tried There are thousands upon thousands of roses made worldwide. Even if you only count what’s available where you live, you’re probably talking about at least a few hundred different kinds, all of which taste different. Keep trying with an open mind you’re sure to find one you like.

I love rose wines because they have really nice red fruit flavors that you don’t find in white or red wines, are crisp and refreshing and are still a great value. The Don Salvador Rosado (the Spanish word for rose) is a steal for $7.99. It has delicious strawberry and cherry flavors. Roses can be more serious too. Bandol, a region in Provence, makes high-end roses that have great complexity and can even age a bit. We have one that sells for $30 if you’re ever looking for a higher-end wine that’s not typical. So if you’re curious read the article and see why the French have come to love these wines so much.

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Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running mate, negating a promise that people who turned over their phone numbers would be the first to know who Obama had chosen. The campaign scrambled to send the text message after the leak, sending phones buzzing at the inconvenient time of just after 3 a.m. on the East coast.

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This is a great decision — if his plans were to help the Republicans this year.
If Obama isn’t the personification of narcissism, then Biden definitely is.
Case in point, from The WaPo:
One of the most overlooked episodes during the 1987 collapse of Biden’s [Presidential] campaign was a snippet of footage captured by C-Span in which the […]

Gas prices have dropped for 35 straight days across the nation. That is encouraging for those who are in the market to buy a home in the Fredericksburg real estate market. Primarily because most residents of our community commute north or south, and gas prices are an issue.
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Plutocrat Thurston Howell III is defending longtime friend and presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain from criticism by “those dreadful, just dreadful one-at-a-time home owners.”
Reached by satellite-phone, Howell a scion of Newport, R.I. society and a 1932 graduate of Harvard College, said that he doesn’t even know how many homes he personally owns.  “Counting homes is for the […]

Today marks the 75th Anniversary Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933. The storm was one of the worse in history for eastern Virginia. The storm’s devastation also had an affect on the first post-prohibition beer halls in Virginia. From the Free Lance-…