Wine 101 Practice Test

Rosé describes pink wines made from red grapes with limited skin contact. The color in these wines comes from briefly soaking the grape skins, which releases pigment into the juice but doesn’t extract as much tannin or color as longer contact would. This brief maceration or a short-saignee approach gives the characteristic pink hue while preserving the fresh fruit flavors of red grapes. The term rosé is the standard wine-language label for this style; “pink wine” is too generic, and “blush wine” is an older or less precise label, while “rosé wine” is correct but often used interchangeably with rosé itself.