When Rosé, then d'Anjou!

[Rumpelstil]

Rosé d'Anjou is an appellation for rosé wines from the Anjou district of France's western Loire Valley wine region. Generally associated with sweeter rosés made predominantly from Grolleau Noir, the appellation is now declining in importance. This is particularly the case when compared to the more complex, more serious rosé wines made under the Cabernet d'Anjou title.

Grolleau Noir is a variety that is permitted in very few other appellations. Plantings are declining, but those vines which have not been replaced by more commercially successful varieties (Cabernet Franc being an obvious example), end up in Rosé d'Anjou. In an effort to raise the quality and popularity of these wines, they may now also contain Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec (known locally as Cot) Gamay, Pineau d'Aunis, and Grolleau Gris.

https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-rose+d%27anjou

I do like those Rosé d'Anjou wines.
Who else does?

 

[Decypher]

https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-rose+d%27anjou

I do like those Rosé d'Anjou wines.
Who else does?

I do, but probably prefer the Rosés from Provence. This evening I have a rose from Austria chilling in the fridge. It’s made with Cabernet Franc and Zweigelt and is a little darker than the pale Rosés you find in France.

 

[Rumpelstil]

There are many Rosés all over the world.

 

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Margaret of Anjou​

Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England and nominally Queen of France by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René, King of Naples, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.

Margaret was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. Some of her contemporaries, such as the Duke of Suffolk, praised "Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit" and the 16th-century historian Edward Hall described her personality in these terms: "This woman excelled all other, as well in beauty and favour, as in wit and policy, and was of stomach and courage, more like to a man, than a woman."[1]

Owing to her husband's frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, and this provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for more than 30 years, decimated the old nobility of England, and caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.

Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, and she died there at the age of 52.

Margaret of Anjou - Wikipedia

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I do, but probably prefer the Rosés from Provence. This evening I have a rose from Austria chilling in the fridge. It’s made with Cabernet Franc and Zweigelt and is a little darker than the pale Rosés you find in France.

And I might prefer a Weißherbst from Durbach in Baden.