Topping Rose House
Billecart-Salmon
Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon Brut Rosé Champagne 2007
🏅Rating 92/100 (4,2⭐)
I always struggle with rose champagnes. Somehow they don't convince me and almost never justify the price tag. But there are a few which I am satisfied with.
Cuvee Elisabeth is definitely in my top list. Its first vintage is 1988 and was created as a counterpart to another prestige cuvee of the house Nicolas François.
This cuvee is about the elegance and finesse rather than the power. Made of equal parts of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir it is blended with less than 10% of red wine from old vines in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ.
Chic rose color with copper hue. Reductive style with a cooler 2007 vintage showing through. Apricot jam, candied citrus, sugar powdered red berries. Delicate bitter cool and dry finish. Disg. in Feb 2019 after spending impressive 11 years on lees. The dosage of 6 g/l is enough to reach the perfect balance.
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Cantina dei Produttori Carema
Carema Nebbiolo 2016
My ‘ house’ wine shared w friends & paired with baked Cod & Roquefort sauce, roasted vegetables, & barley. Pretty in color & on the palate: rusted rose hips, some distant forest floor. Medium plus acidity but enough to cut through the Roquefort sauce, & low enough tannins to not spar with the cod. — 4 years ago
Henri Goutorbe
Grand Cru Brut Rosé Champagne
This is becoming a favorite in our house! Red cherry, raspberry, strawberry. Balanced with a cleansing finish. TBL — 6 years ago
Taittinger
Prestige Rosé Brut Champagne
A shockingly vibrant orange color with reddish pink accents. The bubbles are tiny and persistent. 45/35/20 PN/CH/PM with 15% of still Pinot Noir added in and it shows. The sweetness level is fine and appropriate at 9 g/ dosage. Fresh raspberries on the nose immediately and they never leave. Plums and strawberries make their mark along with a touch of brioche buns and butterscotch.
Sleek, elegant, and sexy. This has all the markings of a big champagne house rosé and that’s not a bad thing. As pleasant as a warm spring day with flowers blooming all around with that extra generosity and class you expect. Very sensual and lush in your mouth and on your tongue. Wonderful minerality and red fruits on the palate. Earthiness and spice make themselves known, as well. A dash of smoke on the medium to long finish. Truly exquisite stuff, especially for a NV bottle. — 5 years ago
Billecart-Salmon
Brut Rosé Champagne Chardonnay Blend
The White Burgundy was excellent but, still have to have my BSR 375ml. It’s been awhile for us.
It is a little better tonight following the Burgundy & soft white cheese.
The nose on this bottle really flows out of the glass tonight. Beautiful lean fruits of; blackberries, black cherries, cherries, strawberries, watermelon near the rind, blood orange, orange & tangerine & some pomegranate. Crisp volcanic minerals, saline, sea fossils, baguette crust, vanillin, whiff of caramel, soft white spice, pink flowers and rose pedals.
Everything on the palate sings just a little louder tonight as well. Fruits are even a little richer than normal. Ripe & slightly gummy not as normal leaner fruits of; blackberries, black cherries, cherries, strawberries, watermelon near the rind, blood orange, orange & tangerine & some pomegranate. Crisp and grippy, volcanic minerals, beautiful softer, powdery chalkiness w/o quite the sharper edge it normally has, soft, hints of Provence herbs, saline, sea fossils, baguette crust, vanillin, whiff of caramel, soft white spice, pink flowers and rose pedals. The acidity is crisp, lively and dead on as alway. The long, rich, well balanced finish is deliciously refreshing and persists minutes.
Photos of; one of their Grand Cru Vineyards at sunset & inside and the Estate grounds of the House of Billecart, — 6 years ago
Pat A
Nice rose! This is her house rose wine. Had on first retirement wine Wednesday of 2025. $12 a bottle! — 7 months ago