Rose Late Release
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, seared wild salmon, and mature Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Louis Roederer's Late Release Rosé represents the pinnacle of the house's innovative infusion technique. Unlike traditional assemblage, Roederer macerates Pinot Noir grapes from the sunny, clay-limestone slopes of Cumières for several days before adding Chardonnay juice to ferment together. This co-fermentation yields a seamless integration of red fruit structure and citrusy elegance. The Late Release designation signifies that these bottles have been held back in the house's historic chalk cellars for decades, undergoing extended lees contact and post-disgorgement aging. This patience coaxes out tertiary notes of dried forest fruits, warm brioche, and exquisite mineral complexity, echoing the historic craftsmanship that has defined the house for centuries.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in Reims in 1776 and renamed upon Louis Roederer’s succession in 1833, Champagne Louis Roederer stands as one of the region’s preeminent independent, family-owned Grandes Marques. Spanning 250 hectares predominantly situated within Grands and Premiers Crus across the Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, and Côte des Blancs, the estate prioritizes exceptional estate-owned viticulture. Under Chief Executive Frédéric Rouzaud and long-tenured Chef de Cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, the house has pioneered large-scale viticultural regenerative transitions, with vast holdings certified organic and farmed biodynamically. The winemaking style combines parcel-by-parcel vinification, judicious large-oak maturation, and blocked malolactic fermentation to preserve chalk-driven tension, textural depth, and crystalline purity. Louis Roederer is internationally renowned for creating Cristal—the iconic prestige cuvée developed in 1876 for Tsar Alexander II—alongside Cristal Rosé, vintage-dated parcel expressions, and the dynamic multi-vintage Collection series based on a perpetual reserve system.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier