RECOMMENDED: Best summer drinks in NYC
Ah, rosé—the refreshing, Provence-born summer wine is as much a seasonal staple as seersucker suits, rickety rides on the Coney Island Cyclone and Pharrell-crooned dance hits. Once relegated to ladies who lunch and snubbed by wine snobs, the warm-weather blush has become the mixer of the moment for summer cocktails, favored by tumbler-shaking bartenders for its versatility, complexity (a midpoint between tannic red and buttery white) and, of course, that gorgeous signature tint.