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    1 003
  • Producer ranking ?

    20
  • Decanting time

    10min
  • When to drink

    now - 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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The Story

The blend is 80% Chardonnay from Grand Cru vineyards, with 75% coming from the Côte des Blancs (Avize, Chouilly, LeMesnil-sur-Oger, and Oger) and 25% from the Montagne de Reims (Sillery and Verzenay); ther emaining 20% is composed of Pinot Noir made into red wine, from the only Grand Cru vineyardin Aÿ.

Vinification:

  • Wine characteristics for the year in Champagne
  • Potential alcohol: 9.3° for Chardonnay, 9.5° for Pinot Noir
  • Total acidity: 8.6g H2SO4/l (average for all grape varieties combined)
  • Harvest by hand
  • Alcoholic fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks
  • Malolactic fermentation
  • Dosage: 5g/l

 

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Wine Information

The 1988 vintage was a cool year. This vintage ages incredibly well as prooves the current form of this Dom Ruinart Rosé 1988. This champagne is a blend of 80% Chardonnay from Côte des Blancs Grand Cru villages ( Avize, Chouilly, Le Mesnil) and 20% Pinot Noir from Montagne de ReimsGrand Cru villages ( Sillery, Puisieulx, Verzenay) vinified as a red wine. For red wines, the winemaking is done in a Burgundy style with a daily stirring of the grape skins. Ruinart created a great rosé champagne expressing all together honey and red berry ( cherry, rapsberry) notes and a final sensation of plum. It is quaffable and deep on the palate, with dynamism and freshness. This champagne aged on lees for at least 10 years.

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Vintage 1988

CHAMPAGNE: From this year, the most classic and refined champagnes were producedChampagnes are long-lived and mature slowly to their peak.

Winter and spring were fairly mild. Inflorescences began in good weather in June. Already during the next month, the cloud masses swarmed to the Champagne province. Finally, the sky broke right before harvest. The harvest remained smaller than in the previous year. Even though the weather was unstable, the vintage produced fine and elegant wines, of which many have just reached their peak. The wines are marked by high acids and a concentrated, precise style. A real classic vintage. There is no rush to enjoy these wines, as they endure storage well and will continue to develop well for the next 10–12 years. Indicative of a slowly maturing vintage is that Krug released to the market first the Clos du Mesnil 1989 vintage before the 1988 vintage. This year has also stayed in mind as the vintage when Jacquesson & Fils produced the first of its three late bottled special cuvées – the Jacquesson DT (Dégorgement Tardif).

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Tasting note

color

Medium and Bright

ending

Long, Flavorful and Lingering

flavors

Toasty, Cranberry, Raspberry, Cherry, Voluptuous and Cigar-box

nose

Mature, Generous, Complex and Ripe

recommend

Yes

taste

Average in Acidity, Complex, Balanced, Well-structured, Mature, Full-bodied, Elegant, Round, Rich and Dry

Verdict

Well-rounded and Impressive

Written Notes

Moderately dark, bit hazy evolved red colour. Evolved, leathery, cigar leave nose with figs. Dry, round, mature palate with flat mousse. Savoury and tasty finish with good mineral backbone. – JL 92p (May 2023)   

  • 90p

Pale orange. Some camphor notes, some caramel notes nose. Fresh acidity, leaner mousse, lacks some fruit and body, good length, bit bitter. 89

  • 89p
Jag har genom åren inte riktigt gått i gång på Dom Ruinart Rosé. Men när Frederic Panaïotis valde att servera detta till en sensationell consomé med halstrad färsk anklever och korriander så sällade jag mig till beundrar skaran. Doften påminner om en lillasyster till Dom Pérignon Rosé. Färgen har inslag av orange. Mjukt elegant med kaffetoner i bästa bourgognestil. Ett sensationellt supervin! Förmodligen också den främsta Dom Ruinart Rosé som hittills gjorts.
  • 96p
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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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