Sparkling Rosé

Raumland Secco Rosé smells of wild strawberry and rhubarb

The Rosé Frizzante is a semi-sparkling wine made from Portugieser, to which carbon dioxide is added in the cellar. It is not a sparkling wine made by secondary fermentation in the bottle, but rather a delicate pink aperitif from the light collection of the Raumland sparkling wine estate.

Rosé Frizzante is the pink semi-sparkling wine from the Raumland sparkling wine estate in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, Rheinhessen, and belongs to the Raumland Manufacture collection. The base wine made from Portugieser is harvested in September, gently pressed, and aged in stainless steel tanks to keep the fruit clear and juicy. If you are looking for the Raumland Secco Rosé, you can find it here in a 0.75-liter bottle.

Wild strawberry, raspberry, and a hint of rhubarb

It appears delicate pink in the glass and smells of wild strawberries, ripe raspberries, and fresh rhubarb, accompanied by a hint of light cherry.

On the palate, it remains surprisingly lean, and 9.7 grams of residual sugar per liter give it a soft edge. The 5 grams of acidity keep it upright, and the fine perlage carries the berry fruit upward rather than overpowering it. It is light as a feather, fresh, and lively, with a finish that tapers off short and clean.

With this Frizzante, the fruit takes center stage, and the sweetness remains restrained. This makes it a wine for people who actually prefer to drink dry.

With summer salad, on the grill, for the first round

A semi-sparkling wine has less pressure on the cork than a Sekt (sparkling wine) and therefore opens noticeably more quietly, almost casually.

As an aperitif in the garden, this is ideal, as no one is expected to be reverently silent here; the glass is meant to be passed around. It meets colorful summer salads with berries and goat cheese on equal footing, and it doesn’t take issue with grilled items ranging from vegetables to poultry.

Well-chilled at 6 to 8 degrees, it belongs in a wine glass with a bit of a bowl so the berry fruit has room to rise. In a narrow flute, little of this aroma would remain. It holds its own without effort against a platter of air-dried ham and ripe melon.

Why a sparkling wine estate also makes semi-sparkling wine

With Frizzante, the carbon dioxide is not created through secondary fermentation but is added to the finished wine in the tank. This is not a "small" sparkling wine, but its own category with its own rules. The lower pressure makes it a wine for a long session rather than for a single ceremonial toast at midnight.

Volker Raumland has been bottling these semi-sparkling wines for decades alongside his great vintage sparkling wines, which spend at least 36 months on the lees. The Rosé Frizzante doesn’t need that time; it thrives on the fruit of the young vintage and is meant to be drunk young. Being able to do both side-by-side requires two completely different sets of skills in the cellar.

Behind the Rosé is the same house that has been known since 1984 primarily for long-aged sparkling wines: Volker Raumland farms 14 hectares organically, and since 2019, his daughters Katharina and Marie-Luise have been working with him. The real point is that such an establishment takes the light summer bottle seriously. In addition, you can find the white Secco Frizzante, the Cassis Frizzante with blackcurrant juice, and other sparkling wines from Flörsheim-Dalsheim with us.