Champagne Laherte Frères Rosé de Meunier NV Base 18. Disg. May 2022

Champagne Laherte Frères Rosé de Meunier is made entirely from Pinot Meunier vinified three different ways.

Laherte Frères is based at Chavot in the Coteaux Sud d'Épernay, a sector where Meunier is the workhorse variety and rarely gets to headline on its own. This rosé is a blend of three components: 60% pressed off in the conventional way to make a white base, over a third of which was reserve wine aged in barrel; 30% made as a saignée rosé, with the juice left briefly on skins; and the final 10% from a fully made red wine. The vines average twenty-five years for the white-base parcels and over forty years for the red. The wines were fermented and aged across vats, foudre and old demi-muid barrels before going to bottle for the second fermentation. This release blends equal parts of the 2018 and 2017 harvests, disgorged in May 2022 with 2.5 g/L dosage.

Ready now and good for four or five years. Serve at 8°C with charcuterie, roast quail or a bowl of strawberries.

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