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It’s Rosé Season! Summer Sipping with Oz Clarke & Tom Surgey

Posted in Recommendations, Summer Sipping. On July 16, 2026. By Clare Malec.

Summer must mean it’s rosé season and Oz Clarke and Tom Surgey are out in the garden to taste three different styles of this easy drinking wine from England, Provence and South Africa. Watch them discuss why rosé has become so revered in recent years and explain why pink wine is actually quite difficult to make, demanding a balance between colour, flavour and structure.

“For a round up of rosé get out there and try different Pantones and different foods” – Tom Surgey

They’ll talk you through the main rosé grape varieties and what the shade of pink can (or can’t) tell about how a wine may taste. They even discuss Cèzanne’s obsession with Mont Sainte-Victoire and accidentally share a drop with a bumble bee as they taste these three rosé wines:

Carvers Hill Estate, Pinot Noir Rosé 2025, Wiltshire, England
RRP: £27.00
Stockists: Carvers Hill Estate

Mount Saint Aix, Aix Rosé 2025, Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence AOP, Provence, France
RRP: £18.99
Stockists: Waitrose Cellar, Ocado, Fortnum & Mason, Whole Foods Market

Babylonstoren, Mourvèdre Rosé 2026, South Africa
Official Rosé of RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026
RRP: £18.00
Stockists: Waitrose Cellar

Other blogs and videos in the 2026 WineAlive Summer Sipping Series with Oz Clarke and Tom Surgey include “Celebrate English Wine Week’, ‘Reach for Cava this Summer’, ‘New Wave Summer Softs’ and coming up later this summer ‘Love Albariño Day with Rías Baixas’, ‘Smart Summer Wine-Based Cocktails’, and ‘Make it an English Sparkling Summer’. See them all as they are published here:

Catch WineAlive’s full Summer Sipping series on YouTube at @wine-alive

Posted in Recommendations, Summer Sipping. On July 16, 2026. By Clare Malec.

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