NV Billecart-Salmon Rose Brut

Wine Advocate (WA)

Based on the 2016 vintage, the new NV Brut Rose from Billarcart-Salmon has turned out nicely, mingling notes of red berries and plums with notions of peach, dried flowers and orange rind. Medium to full-bodied, pillowy and elegant, it's bright and charming, with a generous core of fruit, racy acids and a pinpoint mousse. Giving and demonstrative, it's already drinking well. - William Kelley - 05/10/2020

Vinous Media (VM)

(45% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir and 25% Pinot Meunier; 8 g/l dosage; L206454 17741): Pale orange. High-pitched red berry, orange zest and jasmine aromas, with suave mineral and smoky lees notes adding complexity. Spicy and precise on the palate, showing very good punch to its strawberry and bitter cherry flavors. Opens up smoothly with air and picks up a bitter rhubarb quality that lingers onto the long, tightly focused finish. This bottling showed more brawny character than many past renditions of this cuvée, but with no lack of vivacity. - Josh Raynolds - 01/01/2014

Jancis Robinson (JR)

40% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir, 30% Pinot Meunier. Some old Pinot Noir vines from Mareuil-sur-Ay. Some from the grands crus of Montagne de Reims. Saline Chardonnay chosen. Dosage 8.5–9 g/l. Disgorged December 2018. Pale salmon; a bit darker than it used to be. Slight lolly aroma. Base of 2015 with less reserve wine (just 40%) than the Brut Reserve because they aim for fruity and frank. ‘We don’t want our rose to be too vinous,’ they say, even though they acknowledge there’s a trend towards it, but they want to stay true to their style, and their customers. Their shortest-aged wine. They want it to be very fruity – which it certainly is. - 06/17/2019