Wine with Leslie: These are my favourite rosés to enjoy this season, including a €9 bottle

My rosé suggestions below cover different price ranges and include a pet-nat
Wine with Leslie: These are my favourite rosés to enjoy this season, including a €9 bottle

In the wine world, if you get good weather in May, and especially around the bank holiday, it is the start of rosé season.

Summertime. Don’t mind those meteorologists that tell you summer starts in June. In Ireland it starts on Bealtaine, May 1, or at worst, on the May Bank Holiday Weekend.

Bealtaine marks the end of spring and the start of summer, and traditionally involved bonfires, fertility rituals, dancing and craic. In the wine world, if you get good weather in May, and especially around the bank holiday, it is also the start of rosé season.

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