NV R.H. Coutier Champagne Rose Ambonnay Grand Cru

Coutier's assemblage rose is made with 15% still red Pinot Noir, blended with 85% Chardonnay. It is a beautifully crafted and offers up gorgeous signature notes of red fruit, brioche and the complex soil tones of Ambonnay fruit.The Coutier family’s bottling of Brut Rosé in the market today is from the base year of 2015, with forty percent of the blend composed of reserve wines. The cépages is eighty-five percent chardonnay and fifteen percent pinot noir and the wine was disgorged in December of 2019 and finished with a dosage of seven grams per liter. All of the pinot noir in the blend is still red wine. The new release offers up a beautiful bouquet of cherries, rhubarb, rye bread, chalky soil tones and orange zest in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and youthfully zesty, with a good core of fruit and soil signature, frothy mousse and lovely length and grip on the nascently complex and youthful finish. This is still fairly primary and further bottle age