Remember that big storm that moved through Virginia a few weeks ago?  We were very luck and only had a few branches blown off trees, but some friends of ours weren’t so lucky.  They lost their power for the better part of a week, so they came to stay with us.  This, of course, meant plenty of time catching up – that meant some bottles of wine and games to pass the time as we chatted.

One of the games we played was Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot (it’s way more fun to kill a Lumbering Bunny with a kitchen whisk than it has a right to be), and one of the bottles of wine was the ’10 Rosa Luna from Fabbioli Cellars. This dry sangiovese rosé was exactly what we needed to help us beat the heat.  When we first opened it, I noted a strawberry nose and berry and citrus on the palate.  As the wine warmed up, the flavors started to transition to watermelon with a light hint of something herbal I never could quite identify.  Light, fruity, and refreshing is what I like in a rosé, so I was a happy woman – even if my bunnies did have a tendency to die in strange and unusual ways.