In the glass
Aroma: red berries, spice, orchard fruit, smoke
Palate: vinous red fruit, masterly oak, savoury depth, long finish
The rose counterpart to Les Beguines, from the same Gueux Pinot Meunier with a saignee addition: vinous red berries and spice over orchard fruit and smoke, savoury and deep with masterly oak.
What it pairs with
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Seared duck
Vinous red fruit and spice meet the duck. -
Charcuterie
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Savoury depth frames cured meats. -
Mushroom risotto
Smoke echoes earthy mushrooms.
History
Fac-Simile is Prevost's rose version of Les Beguines, made from the same single-vineyard old-vine Pinot Meunier with a small saignee addition.
- 2007 — Prevost adds the Fac-Simile rose to the range
Facts
- Producer
- Champagne La Closerie (Jerome Prevost)
- Grapes
- Pinot Meunier (100%)
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Old-oak fermentation; single-vineyard Pinot Meunier with saignee red wine; no dosage
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 100 to 170 at retail
- Drinking window
- now to 10 from release
- First vintage
- 2007
Scores
- Decanter 92