Laherte Freres Rose de Meunier Extra Brut Champagne [V93][JG92]

Producer: Laherte Freres 
Region: Champagne, France  
Blend: 100% Pinot Meunier  
Year: Non-Vintage 

Vinous, 93 Points 

"The NV Extra Brut Rosé de Meunier is very similar to the Ultradition version (the blend of vintages changes slightly) but bottled with 2.5 grams per liter of dosage. The lower dosage seems to bring out an extra kick of savory intensity to play off the dried rose petal, cinnamon, orange peel and crushed red berry fruit. This release is a blend of equal parts 2018 and 2017, done as a blend of lots that are pressed as white (Blanc de Noirs), saignée and still red wine. I loved it." 

John Gilman, 92 Points 

"The Laherte Frères 'Rosé de Meunier' non-vintage Extra Brut currently on the market is a fifty-fifty blend of base years 2016 and 2015. Aurélien Laherte approaches this wine quite uniquely, as its one hundred percent pinot meunier composition is made of sixty percent wine made with no skin contact, thirty percent with a bit of maceration on the skins and ten percent is still red wine. This new release was disgorged in April of 2018 and finished with a dosage of 2.5 grams per liter. It is a deeper salmon color than many Rosés and offers up a lovely bouquet of cherries, blood orange, a nice touch of rhubarb, gentle smokiness, complex soil tones, a touch of meunier floral delicacy and a lovely topnote of spice elements. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, focused and beautifully complex, with a lovely core, excellent balance and grip, refined mousse and a very long, gently vinous and exquisite finish. This is outstanding juice. 2019-2040."

Alcohol: 12.5% 

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