2013 De Casta Torres Catalunya Rose Wine

Made from  Cariñena (Mediterranean) grapes (only found this out by looking up the winery on the web: I wish all wineries would put the grape variety on their labels!), this s a rose, made by Miguel Torres, which you think of when you think rose. Sensual if not luscious: just the tiniest bit underplayed to be exceptionally luscious (but, then, who wants a luscious wine?), but very close to it, too close to call probably. A scintillating strawberry-pink (mind, I said pink) of great clarity, with strawberries and cream on the nose and palate, but without any sweetness in the fruit or cream, perhaps only a hint, like strawberries on the turn from mid-ripe to full ripeness. A completely luscious wine, there I said it, to drink in early summer, or winter when you're having red beans in a fake shepherd's pie or in tacos, or salami pizza. Under $20. I got mine from the fab Clunes bottle shop/cellars, under the helm of Jared Dixon of Jilly Wines. He knows a good wine when he drinks it ... or makes it! Pretty much a to-die-for rose. (Possibly a bit too lolly water for some, but those some, then, don't get it.)