Alexandra Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, wild mushroom risotto, or seared langoustines.
✨ Technical Specifications
Laurent-Perrier's Alexandra Rosé is a legendary prestige cuvée born from a father's love. In 1987, Bernard de Nonancourt, the visionary head of the house, secretly created this rare vintage rosé to present to his eldest daughter, Alexandra, on her wedding day. Unlike most rosé Champagnes made by blending still red and white wines, Alexandra Rosé is crafted using a highly unusual and demanding co-maceration technique. Pinot Noir grapes from prestigious Grand Cru villages like Ambonnay, Bouzy, and Verzenay are macerated, and during this process, Grand Cru Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs is integrated. This simultaneous maceration harmonizes the structural power of Pinot Noir (typically making up 80% of the blend) with the elegant freshness of Chardonnay (around 20%). The wine undergoes extensive cellar aging of at least a decade, resulting in a complex, copper-apricot hued masterpiece with notes of candied red fruits, orange peel, and dried white flowers.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1812 by André Michel Pierlot in Tours-sur-Marne, Laurent-Perrier grew into one of Champagne's preeminent family-owned houses under the visionary stewardship of Bernard de Nonancourt. Situated at the junction of the Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, and Côte des Blancs, the domaine draws from prestigious Grand Cru villages rooted in deep, moisture-regulating Belemnite chalk and limestone subsoils. Pioneering the systematic use of stainless-steel temperature-controlled fermentation during the late 1970s, Laurent-Perrier forged a signature vinous architecture anchored by Chardonnay dominance, absolute reductive clarity, crystalline freshness, and pristine tension without oxidative masking. Led cellar-side by Chef de Cave Olivier Vigneron under the custodianship of the de Nonancourt family, the estate's benchmark cuvées include its emblematic Cuvée Rosé macerated from 100% Pinot Noir and the prestigious Grand Siècle, a benchmark multi-vintage prestige assemblage blending three complementary declared vintage declarations to reconstruct the ideal year.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier