I’ve actually bought this wine twice, but only been able to drink it once. For, you see, tragedy struck. When I was home visiting family in Nashville last November, my mom and I swung by her favorite liquor store (where, once, when we were buying several bottles of wine, the clerk said, “Now, y’all want a bag for that or you just wanna drink that here?”) so that I could use my budding wine snobbery to buy a couple of nice things for my family. (My family are more often beer and booze-soaked than wine-drenched, and have taught me respect for cruising the half-off bin and the value of quality box wine.)

I have been working on developing a thing for Spain, so I picked out a mid-priced red (though hell if I can remember the name of it now, which is exactly the reason I started this blog), and also the Gran Feudo Rosado 2005, because it was just so darn pretty. We went home. I put the paper bag with the two bottles in it on the kitchen counter. I turned my back. I heard the crash. Alas, but I had placed the bag down unevenly, and it had toppled over, shattering both bottles on my mother’s very hard kitchen floor. It was a very sad day for wine. We returned to the liquor store and I re-purchased the red.

Gran Feudo got its second chance last week, and this time I did not drop it on the floor. I drank it! As the second bottle of the evening, the memories of it are, uh, not quite so sharp, but it had a nice tart, fruity acidity that went quite well with a vodka sauce pizza. I always expect rosés to be sweet, because, well, they’re just so pretty in pink, but this was fairly sharp and dry.

BUY IT AGAIN: Possibly! A very good under $10 rosé.