Green Options

Since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, it’s fitting that Dandelion Earth-Friendly Goods just launched their new Pink Collection, a special group of organic baby toys that will help benefit breast cancer research.

If you’re not familiar with Dandelion, they have all the “eco-ssentials” for babies including rattles, teethers, development toys and even toddler feeding products made from corn. Their classic shape sorter even made Dr. Toy’s best green product list for 2009.

Diego Velasquez, Los Borrachos (The Feast of Bacchus)

“In the beginning, Bacchus created white wine. He saw that it was good and awarded it a score of 90 points. On the second day, Bacchus created red wine and, finding it even tastier, gave it 99 points. (Actually, it deserved 100 points, but in that epoch only wines made in heaven were allowed perfect scores.) On the third day, the god made rosé and saw that it was pink. He started laughing.”

Ben Giliberti, The Washington Post, Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Let’s face it, rosé wines have somewhat of a bad rep. No wonder, if you have only tried “blush” wines, usually low in alcohol and semi-sweet, or mass produced, so-called “white” Zinfandels. In the U.S., pink wine has most often been regarded as sweet, overproduced and unsophisticated. Which for the most part, it is.

Let’s flip the coin. European consumers drink dry rosé wine regularly and in some parts of France, even more rosé than white wine. Why - rosé epitomizes summer. Rosés are all about pleasure - girls in short summer dresses and guys in tight muscle shirts.