I only drink red wine in the summer and I serve it straight from the fridge at about 4 degrees C.
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Assuming you’re doing it with supermarket plonk rather than first-growth clarets, it’s perfectly acceptable. It’s done in France in summer with young local wines.
We tend to serve red wine too warm generally. Always worth bearing in mind that cellar temperatures are low and that what used to be room temperature 100 years ago is not room temperature in an age of central heating.
If you buy cheap red wine and drink it cold it probably tastes like bad rose. You might as well buy good rose which is quite cheap and drinks very well chilled as you describe.
You want dry rose, of course, from the Provence or Languedoc-Roussillon ideally.
Mrs WES even likes it with ice cubes.
I shall give it a try but will need convincing. If it tastes like plonk I fail to see how chilling it might make it taste good. It might make it taste less bad but that is not the same thing.
Point really is that good rose is actually good in its own right and tastes best chilled so why bother with chilled red?
Think I have a cheap bottle of Spanish red that Mrs WES won in a raffle, it's a good candidate for the experiment, I think.