Fourth Avenue and 13th Street

Sign of summer: a row of French rosés at Union Square Wines. “In France, rosés are particularly common in warmer, southern regions where there is local demand for a dry wine refreshing enough to be drunk on a hot summer’s day but which still bears some relation to the red wine so revered by the French,” according to my Oxford Companion to Wine. In New York, rosés are particularly common in the warmer, southern regions of my kitchen.