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  • Decanting time

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  • Food Pairing

    Truffles

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Winemaker Notes: La Grande Dame Rosé is the Veuve Clicquot House's rarest wine from Pinot Noir grapes.

Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Rosé 2008 will pair perfectly with gastronomy, especially with beef, ravioli with prawns, lamb andstuffed tomatoes.

On the eye, La Grande Dame Rosé 2008 offers a beautiful pink gold with light copper hues. Gentle bubbles explode with an extreme delicacy.

On the nose, it is full-bodied and smooth, then be...

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The Story

The Veuve Clicquot Vintage Rose is a true symphony of wine, orchestrated by Madame Clicquot in 1818 when she blended, for the very first time in Champagne history, a selection of the finest black and white grapes. With this wine-making method, consisting of blending red wines and white wines, Madame Clicquot reinvented rose wine, breaking away from the other champagne Houses whose rose wines were traditionally produced by macerating black grap...

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Wine Information

As with every vintage, this wine is a reflection of the year's weather and climate. 2008 ended wonderfully with the grapes maturing in ideal conditions.

 

The harvests, grouped together throughout Champagne, took place between mid-September and early October, in perfect weather. The quality of this harvest was exceptional, with great potential for aging.Naturally then, 2008 was declared a Veuve Clicquot Vintage, the third in the decade f...

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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

color

Light and Salmon

ending

Medium and Lingering

nose

Refined and Round

taste

Well-Integrated, Good texture, Firm, Harmonious and Dry

Verdict

Sophisticated

Written Notes

A vibrant pink with subtle copper hues, accentuated by the finest of bubbles.Fresh, red fruits combine with citrussy fragrances to add richness, before lightly spiced notes of cinnamon and vanilla bring subtlety. Red-berry flavours take root alongside notes of candied citrus fruit. Toasty and spicy flavours lead to a delicate, silky finish.

A blend of 62% pinot noir, 8% meunier and 30% chardonnay from grands and premiers crus, this champagne is a departure from previous vintages, with 5% vinified and aged in French wooden casks. This lends a lightly woody aroma – reminiscent of vanilla. The pink colour stems from a proportion of red wine (14%) from Bouzy added to the blend.

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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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