94 Decanter
This wine exudes class. It displays a wonderful pale pink colour with apricot and copper hue as well as tiny persistent bubbles. Aromas are delicate and refined including a combination of fresh berry fruits, toast, wild flowers and yeasty notes. On the palate it has wonderful creamy texture (two years on the lees have certainly contributed to the textural softness), attractive savoury complexity and a wonderful refreshing finish.
94 James Suckling
A delicious rose that comes across dry, with baked strawberry-pie character, in a subtle and attractive way. Some peach, too. It’s full and very layered. Fine bubbles at the end that melt into the wine. Clear and beautiful. 56% pinot noir and 44% chardonnay.
93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The current release of the NV Brut Rosé is made up mainly of fruit from the 2015 vintage and is a blend of 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay. It was made with about nine grams per liter dosage and was disgorged in March of 2019. Pale salmon-pink in color, it has a lively nose of red berries, crushed stone, musk melon, floral hints and citrus peel and a bright and fresh palate with loads of perfumed red berries and energetic mousse, finishing long and uplifted.
91 Wine & Spirits
There’s ample red-apple flavor at the center of this wine, lingering with a light touch, and hints of spicy orange and ripe peach. That sweet fruit finishes clean, with a gentle sweep of acidity, balanced and long. For scallop sashimi.
90 Connoisseurs' Guide
56% Pinot Noir; 44% Chardonnay. Another in a long string of Brut Rosé successes from Roederer Estate, the winery’s latest is a rich and insistently foamy effort that displays subtle highlights of minerals and a nice bit of creamy complexity born of its time on the yeast. Its central and sustained message, however, is that of lightly juicy, cherry-like fruit, and, while fruity, it is wholly free of candied confection. A most enjoyable sipper on its own, it has the depth and the balance to match up famously with lighter salmon recipes or the sweet, first-of-the-season, local Dungeness crab just now coming to market.
