This update to the Billecart Salmon Rose, with a subtle name change from Billecart Salmon ‘Brut Rose’ to ‘Le Rose’ was chosen to demarcate a change in ageing time and dosage. This now sees 36 months on its lees for complexity and the dosage here has dropped into Extra Brut range, just below 5 grams per liter. The nose opens with a light spice, blood orange, strawberry, bing cherry, and just there citrus. Light and lively on the palate, this has notes of bing cherry, strawberry, citrus, and cream. - D&M TASTING NOTES (MK, Spring, 2025)“Seven percent red wine added to the blend to make the NV Champagne Brut Rosé, which is based on the 2020 harvest and is 45% Chardonnay, 25% Meunier, and the rest Pinot Noir, with about 45% reserve wine. A classic pink salmon hue, the nose is classic and pretty with notes of fresh peaches, raspberries, roses, and chalky earth. Medium-bodied and rounded, it’s approachable and fresh in style, with lovely purity and a pretty feel throughout. It’s delicious now but has the ability to age with ease over the coming 10 years. Disgorged in the first quarter of 2023, 4.7 grams per liter dosage (although interestingly, they are now including the total grams per liter, in this case 5.3 grams per liter in the final wine)” - 93 PTS, AUDREY FRICK, JEB DUNNUCK (12/2024)"Based on the 2020 vintage, Billecart-Salmon's signature rosé appears to be on its finest form of recent years under cellar master Florent Nys, full of fragrant, crunchy redcurrant, red cherry and orange fruit with an alluring hibiscus-like floral lift and subtle green peppercorn spicing. The Meunier wraps the intensity of the vintage base in a little softness that keeps the focus on effortless ease (helped by the selection of delicate Chardonnays and young, fresh reserve wines), all adding up to a rosé of immediacy and charm, sweet-natured without sweetness and fragrant without overt fruitiness. 40% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir and 30% Pinot Meunier." - 92 PTS, TOM HEWSON, DECANTER (03/2024)
