This will mark the first of many posts to come. It also marks the first post since Passover, and I promised there would be no posts until advanced search was available for the Premium members. I am happy to announce that it is now live! This task was more than I ever dreamed about, and I honestly had questions about whether it would ever be possible. I am truly proud of the effort and the outcome, and I hope it is what you guys are looking for. More on that after Avi tests it out. Now on to Rose Wines!

While rose wine in the non-kosher market is exploding – especially Rose wine from Provence, a wine region of France, kosher roses have ebbed and flowed. Last year, the kosher market for roses went into a tailspin. It is now clear that 2022/2023 was the year of Peak-Rose. However, it was very clear that the Kosher wine market is in a state of Rose fatigue. There are TONS of old Roses all over the market.

Personally, I stand by my own feelings when it comes to Rose: I prefer white or Sparkling wines. Further, anyone trying to move 40 or 45-dollar roses will be in for a rude awakening this year, IMHO! The saving grace is that, so far in 2025, it’s been a wonderful year for Rose wines.

QPR and Price

I have been having more discussions about my QPR (Quality-to-Price) score with a few people, and their fair contention is that they see wine at a certain price, and they are not going to go above that. So, instead of having a true methodology behind their ideas, they rely on what can only be described as a gut feeling. The approaches are either wines that punch above their weight class, so they deserve a good QPR score. Or, this other wine has a good score and costs less than 40 dollars, so it’s a good QPR wine.

While I appreciate those ideals, they do not work for everyone, nor do they work for all wine categories. It does NOT work for roses. Look, rose prices are 100% ABSURD – PERIOD! The median rose price has risen a fair amount from last year; some are at 40 to 45 dollars for a rose! So far, it is around $ 35, and prices keep rising.

As you will see in the scores below, QPR is all over the place. There will be good QPR scores for wines I would not buy, while there are POOR to BAD QPR scores for wines I would think about drinking but not buying based on the scores; in reality, I would never buy another bottle because the pricing is ABSURDLY high.

Also, remember that the QPR methodology is based on the 4 quintiles! Meaning that there is a Median, but there are also quintiles above and below it. So a wine at the top price point is, by definition, in the upper quintile. The same goes for scores. Each step above and below the median is a point in the system. So a wine that is in the most expensive quintile but also the best in the group gets an EVEN. Remember, folks, math wins!

Still, some of the wines have a great QPR, and I would not buy them. Why? QPR is not primarily based on quality; it’s based on price. Quality is secondary to price. For example, if a rose gets a score of 87 points, even though that is not a wine I would drink, I would drink it if it has a price below 32 dollars (that is 10 dollars more than two years ago – like I said, crazy inflation) – then the QPR score is GREAT. Again, simple math wins. Does that mean that I would buy them because they have a GREAT QPR? No, I would not! If you still want roses, those are okay options.

Please remember: a wine score and the notes are the primary reasons I would buy a wine – PERIOD. The QPR score serves, secondarily, to help me determine which of the wines I wish to buy is the better value. ONLY the qualitative score can stand on its own when it comes to what I buy. The QPR score, within the wine category, indicates how the wine in question compares to its peers.

Finally, I can, and I have, cut and paste the rest of this post from last year’s Rose post, and it plays 100% the same as it did last year.

So, if you know all about roses and how they are made, skip all the information and go straight to the wines to enjoy this year, from the wines I have tasted so far. If you do not know much about rose wine, read on. As stated, I stand by my opinion that Rose is, at best, a fad, and now is the time to join team white wine! White wines are lower-priced, have better scores, and therefore offer better overall value. IF YOU MUST have a rose wine, stick to the few that I state below in my Best Roses section, right above the wine scores. Again, though, this would be the year to buy roses, because they are impressive, but the prices and overall appeal, for me, just ruin it.