2012 Bordeaux Chateau De Cours and 2014 Cumulus Estate New South Wales Central Ranges Luna Rosa Rosado

Rosado is a lighter style made in a Portuguese tradition by a woman, Debbie Lauritz. But though the bottle features a pretty frilled-edge and colour-embossed label, the wine was too sweet – not all that sweet, for the web site says 'savoury style … with a touch of sweetness', just too sweet for me. The winery's site also recommends savoury food, but I would suggest dessert. By contrast, the Merlot-Cabernet Franc Chateau De Sours was too dry! And though that lovely salmon pink in colour, I expect with Rosé to have a sense of lusciousness and thence high drinkability, and not 'a long dry finish'. Just over and just unders $20.