Pink wines continue to grow in popularity From California, I found several (in order of my preference, but all are recommended) from various appellations... • Santa Maria Valley: Cambria Julia’s Vineyard ($25) spicy, tangy.

Try These 20 Great Rosés From France and the West Coast From pinot noir grapes grown in the Santa Maria Valley, this broadly flavored rosé has bright notes of strawberries and grapefruit.

10 Best Wedding-Day Rosés, According to Sommeliers This is a very special wine for Cambria’s winemaker Jill Russell—it’s her very first wine released in the marketplace as the winemaker for this storied Santa Maria Valley winery. She loves to say this rosé was made with intent, started during the growing season by identifying two blocks of Pinot Noir that she felt could produce the style of rosé she enjoys drinking. To achieve this, she left a heavier crop than what was done for their Pinot Noir wines to create bright fruit flavors and structure. After blending, the wine was fined and filtered, which resulted in a balanced yet juicy rosé with a beautiful pale pink color. Expect to taste notes of strawberry, watermelon rind and grapefruit with a sip of this dry, yet crisp rosé with the perfect balance of acidity and texture.

Refreshing rosés for hot weather Here are my favorite Pinot Noir Rosés:...Barrymore Monterey County, plush and spicy; La Crema Monterey, soft, hints of cream and spice; Cambria Santa Maria Valley, juicy with cinnamon…

Christmas on the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail ... don't miss it! Their 2016 Rosé of Pinot Noir is an excellent dry, easy sipping wine.

…is a nice marriage of vanilla and cherry/berry fruit flavors. Medium bodied and well balanced, it's not lavish or overdone. The silky mouthfeel helps give it a fine sustained finish.

Bright cherry red with a youthful rim. Medium-bodied. Balanced acidity. Moderately extracted. Moderately oaked. Mildly tannic. Raspberries, vanilla. Sweet, fleshy red-fruit aromas follow through on the palate, with vale sweetness and juicy acids making this very approachable.

Lastly, the 1994 Sangiovese displays a charcoal/cherry-scented nose, and compact, clipped, high acid flavors.

A remarkably attractive blend of varietal fruit and sweet oak scents in the nose. Cherryish fruit with more density and weight than normal to this varietal.

Lots of creamy oak. Very pleasing cherry fruit.

Perfumed floral aroma with smoky oak and gamey accents; richly textured berry flavors, slightly herbal; firm tannins; length. Try with portobello mushroom sandwich.

Dense, ripe, richly oaked. Medium-full bodied, soft and fleshy.

This winery's '99 pinot gris is a real mouthful of peach, apricot and melon flavors that are dry and elegant but also impressive in texture and length.

Julia's Vinyard. Smelling faintly of old wood & dried brush, this stolid, soft wine is clean enough, but its full, low energy flavors carry only the barest evidences of Pinot fruit & offer almost nothing of real pleasure.

Challenging, with lots of stuff. Smooth yet deep. You don't drink it, you experience it, and it rewards you.

Challenging with lots of stuff. Smooth yet deep. You don't drink it, you experience it, and it rewards you.

Lively strawbeery aroma, spicy back notes; forward, fruity flavors, ripe berries and plums, toasted oak; medium finish…

This nicely balanced, well-proportioned Pinot brings together elements of red cherries and vanilla in a clean, moderately oaked, medium-to full bodied package underpinned by just a touch of fine-grained tannins.

This rich, fully ripened wine earns good points for its ripe cherry fruitiness, its sweet oak and its intriguing elements of soft and fat than it is velvety, but the wine is likely to win numbers of fans because it has personality and accessibility.

…with autumn leaf and damp-earth denseness on the nose, followed by a lovely sweet impact of ripe, caramelly spicy evolved fruit on the palate;

Soft fruit nose with a rich, structured body - a very elegant wine.

Fairly dense, fairly ripe and fairly oaky, this solid, well-filled young wine is also fairly herbal in the style of its district. Velvety smooth and consistent in its forthright fruit, it carries a complex touch of dried brush from start to finish.

Brushy tones, dried leaves scents, and earthiness in the nose and coarseness at entry undermine the initial appeal of this wine. Yet, it has weight and roundness on the palate and enough stuffing to overcome its off-putting start. Hearty, rustic dishes are recommended as the accompaniment for this wine.

A big, concentrated, pinot, with rich and powerful plum and black cherry aromas and flavors.

Deep, concentrated and loaded with very ripe fruit in the nose, this showy youngster is enhanced by plenty of very rich oak and deftly placed elements of spice and herbs. Full and fleshy on the palate.