a rose is a rose is a rosé

With a play on the famous Gertrude Stein quote, the statement "a rose is a rose is a rosé" is false. If you don't understand, then you made the same mistake I did a couple of weeks ago when Dave McIntyre, wine writer for Washingtonian sent me a note about my garden/springtime post. I was so into the the garden mode that when he told me in the same e-mail that the 2007 rosés were in, I thought he was telling me that his roses were blooming. I sent back a note expressing my amazement since I knew Acqua's roses were weeks away from blooms. I got one of the LOL returns from Dave asking me to read his note a little closer. Oh, rosé the wonderful pink wines from Provence. Oops, that is an acute accent on the e.

Well, Dave has written nice things about rosés and I'm sure we will hear soon about the 2007 vintage.

But I can report for certain that at our house the first 2008 roses have appeared (as you can see from the foto) and it looks like it's going to be a another good year.