False Beliefs about Wine - Q 1

Is Rosé  a mixture of Red and white wine?

It almost happened! Some European countries hoped to obtain authorization to mix white and red wine to produce Rose table wines (as was current practice in certain new world countries). Fortunately France and Italy Prevailed. making Rose requires red grapes. the color is contained in the skins; and the exact intensity required is extracted, either by the same process used for red wine (juice is left in contact with the skins for just few hours, known as the bleeding method) or by that used for making white wine (the grapes are squeezed lightly to extract a small amount of color and this lightly colored juice is simply fermented, the direct pressure method). mixing red wine and white wine is only permitted in France during production of pink Champagne.