Champagne, FranceHenriot's vineyards have been around since the 1700s, but they didn't begin producing sparkling wine until 1808, when Apolline Henriot began to make wine from her family's lands. This rosé was first released in the 1980s. This bottle blends approximately 60% pinot noir, 30% chardonnay, and 10% meunier, with 20-40% reserve wines and 10% still red pinot noir, from Aÿ. It spent 3 years on lees, and was disgorged with 7 g/L. Pouring an orange / salmon hue, this streams smoked stone, burnished orange, toasted cherry brioche along a lightly creamy, tart red currant core, finishing with a pink grapefruit rinse. One well suited to gutsier foods.Tasted: 28 November 2022Tasted by: Prices:
Champagne, FranceFounded in 1808, Henriot is one of the few remaining independent family houses with over two hundred years of history in the region. This is entirely from Montagne de Reims, a cepage of 50/40/10 pinot noir/chardonnay/pinot meunier, with 35 percent reserve wines (inducing a small amount of their perpetual reserve) and three years on lees. Lightly toasted brioche beds the cherry, strawberry, red currant fruits, infiltrated with hearty black peppery spice and tightened with a pink grapefruit tension and black tea rinse. 8-9 g/l dosage.Tasted: 01 December 2018Tasted by: Prices:
Champagne, FranceHenriot champagnes traditionally boasts a high proportion of chardonnay in the blends which accounts for the freshness and lift in this wine but in the case of the rosé there is some pinot added for body. Interestingly the colour comes from the addition of the some still red wine from Mareuil sur Ay after the second fermentation. This is an elegant expression of the style with raspberries, earth and strawberries and sufficient acidity to offset all the fruit. Classy and fun to drink. The blend is 42% chardonnay, 38% pinot noir and 20% red wines for colour.Tasted: 21 January 2010Tasted by: Prices:
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