Tongue Dancer Wines The Sly One Rosé Anderson Valley 2025

Item: Tongue Dancer Wines The Sly One Rosé Anderson Valley 2025
Rating: 97
Author: Sean Ludford

The Data

Country USA

Appellation Anderson Valley

Varietal Rose Blend

Retail Price $35

ABV 13.5%

Score 5 Stars/97 points

In the Glass

Appearance

Brilliant, medium coral color.

Aromatics

The aromatics are intense, offering scents of red cherry, raspberry, and apricot stone with supporting notes of red grapefruit, boysenberry, mineral, and kumquat.

Flavor

The palate is in full agreement with the nose, delivering a red fruit-driven core with flavors of wild strawberry, mulberry, slate, and watermelon. The finish is long and lingering.

Intensity & Texture

Medium-bodied and perfectly balanced with a supple yet vibrant texture.

Cool Factor

A rosé from Tongue Dancer Wines is always going to be ultra-cool, and this beauty hit a homer with its first at-bat.

Value Grade

Yes, it's $35, more than we typically like paying for rosé, but when it's the top of the top shelf, it's worth every penny.

Analysis

Stop the presses, spring/summer 2026 just got better. Tongue Dancer Wines (TDW) has introduced a new rosé, and it’s magnificent. “The Sly One,” a cheeky moniker from TDW, has previously been used for select Pinots and Chardonnays, but now the family has expanded it to rosé as well. It’s also their first rosé from Anderson Valley and hopefully not their last — it’s that good. Like all of their rosé wines, it’s made with 100% Pinot Noir and uses the saignée method — a winemaking technique of “bleeding off” a portion of juice after a brief period of skin contact (just six to eight hours in this case). We have been smitten with TDW’s Pinots from Anderson Valley, so when a rosé from this appellation arrived, we had high expectations, and these expectations were exceeded. It’s truly one of the finest rosé wines that we have ever tasted.

How to Enjoy

Serve chilled but not too cold. Enjoy a bottle now and lay one or two down in the cellar for next summer. Serve with roasted fowl, fatty fish, and roasted peppers.