Reviews
August 2025 94 Points JamesSuckling.com
This is a layered and complex rosé showing aromas ranging from strawberries, apricot pits and pink grapefruits to nutmeg, pastries and rust. It’s firm, focused and minerally with a tight mousse and a long, taut finish. Drink or hold.
August 2025 92 Points JamesSuckling.com
This bone-dry rosé Champagne is crisp and taut, showing aromas of grapefruit, crushed stones, apples and a hint of nutmeg. It’s fresh and minerally, with tight bubbles and lots of tension. Shows restraint. Drink or hold.
August 2025 93 Points JamesSuckling.com
Berries and dried grapefruit with hints of salty biscuits, toast and flint on the nose of this dry Champagne. Very savory yet rich, broad shouldered and textured, too, with a firm,chalky finish. From lieu-dit La Riviere in Cumieres. Drink now or hold.
August 2025 93 Points JamesSuckling.com
This has pretty and elegant aromas of pears, apple blossoms, grapefruit and chalk. It’s silky, fresh and beautifully balanced on the palate, with very soft bubbles. Based on 2021, with reserve wine from a perpetual reserve created in 2012, plus reserve wines kept in oak from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Drink now.
August 2025 93 Points View From the Cellar
The 2018 Louis Roederer Brut Nature Rosé is crafted this year from a cépages of sixtyfour percent pinot noir, twenty percent pinot meunier and sixteen percent chardonnay. Twenty percent of the vins clairs were barrel-fermented for this vintage and none go through malolactic fermentation. The wine takes its delicate salmon color from a five day “infusion” for a portion of the pinot noir, with the wines macerating with the skins at cooler temperatures prior to being blended with the other juice to co-ferment. The wine’s aromatic constellation is vibrant and nicely ripe, wafting from the glass in a mix of peach, fresh apricot, chalky soil tones, a touch of orange peel, fresh-baked sourdough bread, dried flowers and incipient notes of smokiness in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nicely generous on the attack, with fine depth at the core, good soil undertow, refined, delicate mousse, good acids and grip and a long, complex and beautifully balanced finish. This is quite approachable out of the blocks in 2018. 2025-2055.