2010 Louis Roederer Brut Ros̩ Champagne

Roederer invested in a separate winery to produce its ros̩, the facility completed in 2007, taking its classic saign̩e method wines to a new level. An estate-grown blend of pinot noir from the clay soils of Cumi̬res with chardonnay from the C̫te des Blancs, this is an extraordinary vintage of Roederer Ros̩. It‰۪s a lithe wine, compelling for its precision rather than for any stylized complexity. In fact, it feels simple, naked, capturing the freshness of the grapes in pale pink energy. The transparent cherry and Honeycrisp apple flavors are inherently balanced and hard to resist.