From a very difficult year, the 2017 Champagne Vintage Rose is co-fermented from a blend made at harvest time. It pours a pristine bright salmon color and shimmers in the glass, offering notes of peaches, fresh berries, white pepper, and Mirabel. The palate has surprisingly good tension and lovely focus. A superb and more gastronomic wine, it has a hint of warmth, but it is more the spice that comes through. Drink 2025-2045.
95 points, Audrey Frick, Jeb Dunnuck (Dec 2024)
Vineyards in Cumières, facing the Marne Valley, are the source of this ripe, full and balanced Champagne. The fruit of one year, with an aroma of roses and a rich, vibrant palate, the wine is opulent and full. Drink now.
95 points, Roger Voss, Wine Enthusiast (Dec 2024)
A seductive, balanced and silky champagne rosé with aromas of apricot skins, mirabelles and stones, together with a touch of baking spices. In control and well balanced, with an attractive texture. Harmonious with fine bubbles and a laser-focused finish. Drink or hold.
94 points, James Suckling (Jul 2024)
The 2017 Louis Roederer Brut Rosé Millésime is a lovely wine that is drinking beautifully right out of the blocks, though of course, with the structure to also age long and gracefully. The wine’s cépages is sixty percent pinot noir and forty percent chardonnay, with twenty-four percent of the vins clairs going through malo in this vintage. Just under thirty percent of the still wines were raised in casks this year and the finishing dosage is eight grams per liter. The wine is a lovely salmon color (and just a touch deeper than most vintage Rosés from Maison Roederer) and delivers a refined bouquet of white peach, tangerine, rye bread, chalky soil tones, orange peel, dried flowers and just a hint of the smokiness to come with bottle age. On the palate the wine is crisp, complex and full-bodied, with a beautiful core of fruit, lovely soil undertow, a fine girdle of acidity, elegant mousse and a long, beautifully balanced and precise finish. This is first class Rosé!
94 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar (Aug 2025)
There's a succulent quality to the nectarine, white cherry and melon fruit flavors on display in this elegant rosé, though a firm spine of well-meshed acidity provides fine definition. Plush and creamy in texture, with a minerally underpinning of chalk and smoke, backed by pleasing hints of pink grapefruit pith, pickled ginger and toast that linger on the finish. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Drink now through 2034. 780 cases imported.
93 points, Alison Napjus, Wine Spectator (Dec 2024)
From the challenging 2017 vintage, a growing season plagued by severe spring frosts, a lackluster summer, and bouts of botrytis in the run-up to harvest, somehow comes the bright, breezy breath of fresh air! The 2017 Rosé Vintage is a blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from Roederer’s la Rivière estate. It reveals a very subtle salmon-pink color. Delicate scents of fresh raspberries, wild strawberries, and McIntosh apples languorously drift from the glass, followed by chalk dust and rose bud tea suggestions. The palate is understated and elegantly styled with a zippy line of freshness and tiny, persistent bubbles supporting the red berry and chalky layers, finishing with a quietly intense floral perfume. 29% was aged in oak, 24% went through malo-lactic, and it has 8 grams per liter of dosage, making for a very dry expression with great tension and finesse.
93 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Independent (Jul 2024)
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