In the glass
Aroma: wild strawberry, redcurrant, white peach, delicate spice
Palate: fine red fruit, saline freshness, silky texture, precise finish
One of Champagne's most admired roses: pale salmon-pink with wild strawberry, redcurrant and white peach over fine red fruit, saline freshness and a silky, precise finish.
What it pairs with
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Seared tuna tartare
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Saline freshness and red fruit meet raw fish. -
Charcuterie
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Delicate spice frames cured meats. -
Strawberry tart
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Wild-strawberry notes echo the dessert fruit.
History
Billecart-Salmon's brut rose, made with the house's signature cold, slow fermentation, is one of the most acclaimed non-vintage roses in Champagne.
- 1830 — House establishes the cold-fermentation method behind its rose
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne Billecart-Salmon
- Grapes
- Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Cold, slow double fermentation; small still-red addition for colour
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 75 to 110 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 8 from release
- First vintage
- 1830
Scores
- Vinous 92