Next comes taste. Our Rosé d’Assemblage is as dry as its white cousin, but it has different flavours that it owes to the special blend. The Assemblage is a mix of 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier-grapes. In fact it is the same blend as our Tradition. When carefully mixed with 10% local red wine, made from the two Pinot-varieties, the aromas on your nose and palate change. The sensations of pink are red.
You may recognise fruits like cherries and strawberries as you smell the Rosé d’Assemblage. They even reappear as you taste it along with blackberries and even peppers. The fleshy taste of this rosé pleasantly stays in your mouth for a while. Our current Rosé d’Assemblage is based on still wines from 2007 thus suggesting a lively wine with myriads of fine bubbles that will form into a regular necklace of bubbles along the side of your glass before they burst on the surface. The dosage is low for a brut with just 8,5 grams of sugar per litre.
Blending white base wines with local red wine is a genuine as well as ancient speciality of Champagne. As early as the 18th century, this attractive type of champagne was appreciated around Europe. Today it still is. It remains the only high quality wine in France where the AOC-rules allows a blend of white and red wines. This blending takes place in the year after the grape harvest when the wine is bottled (Tirage). The bottle fermentation is followed by the slow maturation in cool local caves that will enhance the flavours and tastes of this champagne.
Pink champagnes like our Rosé d’Assemblage have grown more and more popular during the last 15 years. Due to the attractive colour but also to the all-round usage potential of this pretty wine. It will fit your aperitif amongst friends or at a bigger party as well as a big range of meals from pink fish to white meat dishes. In Japan pink champagne is an appreciated match for sushi as well. You may even combine it with red fruit desserts as long as they are not sweetened too much.
