In a world where there is a day commemorating and celebrating everything and anything the human mind can conceive, it feels like a genuine treat when significant ones roll around each year.

If you have guessed it already, we’re talking about International Drink Chenin Blanc Day (17 June) and International Rosé Day (24 June). Wine lovers the world over hardly need a reason to kick back and enjoy a glass of their favourite vino, but celebrating heritage and flavour runs deep into the culture of wine making as well as wine drinking.

A celebration that began in South Africa in 2014, International Drink Chenin Blanc Day is an annual championing of the diverse white grape that thrives in various conditions and vinified in a wide range of styles.

While South Africans may have been the first to love it so much that they created a day for it, counterparts in the USA and Japan have since joined in on the act, alongside Fan de Chenin in Frances Loire Valley and Swan Valley wineries in Western Australia like Vino Volta.

Get in on the act yourself with a few fun hashtags associated with the day, like #drinkchenin, #chenanigans, and #cheninfanweek.

These are our top three choices, in no particular order, for raising a glass on 17 June, 2022:

With pink glinted glasses being raised on the fourth Friday of June every year, International Rosé Day has a place in the hearts and mouths of many a wine lover.

While popular winos Wine Folly describe Rosé as a state of mind, the process of making it is surprisingly not as complex as you may think. Red wines will ferment for weeks on red grape skins, soaking up all the textures and tannins red wine drinkers love. With Rosé, it’s only a couple of hours.

With a history spanning over 2,500 years, beginning its journey in Provence, Rosé is here to stay, only becoming more popular as wine producers begin giving more credence and attention to what was once not considered a wine of any real value.

Here are three Rosé wines for you to wrap your tastebuds around on 24 June, 2022.