Champagne, FranceThe VC Rosé comes off 60 small vineyards mixing just under 50 percent pinot noir with 13 percent meunier, 25 percent chardonnay, and 12 percent still red wine bled from tanks. The reserve wine portion from older vintages can often be as high as 40 percent. The colour is a light pink/orange, the nose an open and inviting cherry affair with more red fruits, cranberry, pomegranate, and red currant. There is plenty of acidity to cut into the creamy core of lees and fruit, keeping each sip fresh. Like all VC wines, the rosé one is built for food, so don't worry about bringing it to the dinner table.Tasted: 02 May 2021Tasted by: Prices:
Champagne, FranceLike its yellow label sibling, this VC rosé is one of the best selling of its type worldwide. From up to 60 vineyards, this blends 44 to 48 percent pinot noir, 13 to 18 percent meunier and 25 to 29 percent chardonnay, with 12% red wine (saignée method) and up to 40% reserve wines, depending on year. Medium peach in hue, this opens with expressive cherry, red currant, and rhubarb, sharpened with tight cranberry acidity, wrapping around a doughy core, and finishing with an astringent citrus rinse. Pretty assertive and fruit forward, and best taken with food to tame.Tasted: 04 November 2019Tasted by: Prices:
Champagne, FranceIt’s sometimes hard to imagine a wine with 50 to 60 moving parts, but this rosé comes from that number of crus, and just to keep it VC-like, the blend is more or less the same as its Yellow Label cousin at 44 to 48 percent pinot noir, 13 to 18 percent meunier and 25 to 29 percent chardonnay. Now get ready for more: there is 25 to 40 percent reserve wines from up to five harvests to keep the VC house style in place. La Cuvée Rosé, one of the bestselling rosé champagnes in the world, and one of the few still made using the saignée method, completes the blend with 12 percent of red wine using red grapes specially raised and selected to give a marvellous balance and colour to this wine. Again, bright fresh red fruits with a strong citrus, leesy, biscuit undertone with swirls of tea, cherries and strawberries. This rosé is all about food and we loved it with tuna sashimi.Tasted: 05 November 2018Tasted by: Prices:
Champagne, FranceVery pale salmon colour but very fine mousse. Light honey, toasty, nutty, floral, raspberry, baked green apple and lemon aromas. Full, crisp, fine mousse in a drier brut style with good juicy acidity. Lime, baked green apple, nutty, toasty, pear, spicy, strawberry flavours. Finish is more austere than mane others but has very good intensity. This would be better with food to work to complement its dry, taut, austere style.Tasted: 06 December 2013Tasted by: Prices:
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