Rose Vintage
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2033
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, seared wild salmon, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Louis Roederer's Vintage Rosé is a masterclass in precision and a tribute to the unique terroir of Cumières. Unlike many Champagne houses that simply blend red wine into white to create rosé, Roederer employs a highly demanding cold maceration (infusion) process for its Pinot Noir. This technique, perfected over decades, co-ferments the Pinot Noir skins with the juice before blending in elegant Chardonnay. The Pinot Noir grapes are sourced from the steep, south-facing clay-limestone slopes of Cumières, where the warmth of the Marne valley coaxes out rich, ripe berry flavors. A portion of the Chardonnay is matured in oak casks, adding a signature creamy texture and spicy complexity. This historical dedication to the infusion method yields a rosé of remarkable depth, shimmering salmon hue, and a structure that echoes the house's legendary craftsmanship.
🍾 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 ~60-65%, Chardonnay ~35-40%
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5%