Make the most of your Valentine’s celebration with wonderful, romantic Rose Champagne.

As Dr. Samuel Johnson noted, “The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love is like being enlivened with champagne.”

Look for Nicolas Feuillatte Rose a superb value at about $30–35. It is easy to find and even easier to drink.

Imagine a crisp elixir redolent of dried raspberries and blackberries, infused with a hint of magical herbs and blessed with bubbles.

or:

Moet Imperial Rose (About $50).

I recently shared this with clients at a wine and poetry event in Las Vegas. It is majestic. Aromas of toast with a touch of dark marmalade, great balance of mouth feel and structure, understated and seductive spicy fruit flavors that make you smile on the finish.

Both wines go perfectly with this:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare