BK Summer series Rose

By the time the second course emerged – salty, grilled sardines with a sauce of olive oil, tarragon, basil and dill, served with pan-fried potatoes and an asparagus salad – we were chilled and happy and ready to crack open the BK 2011 Rosé (a saignée of pinot noir). Without even a hint of sweet, this wine has little resemblance to virtually any other Australian rosé – it is, stylistically-speaking, a classic, savoury French rosé, but born instead on a cool slope in the Adelaide Hills. The wine smelled spicy and musky – like red rose petals – and tasted of nutmeg and plums.