Description / Reviews
// 100% Pinot Meunier (Organic & Biodynamic)
Fruit from Coteaux Sud d'Epernay & Vallée de la Marne, w/ limestone & chalky soils
2022 base vintage
Disgorged December 2024
2.5g/L dosage (Extra Brut style)
"This dazzling Meunier represents superb value in a market where rosé wines are getting increasingly pricey. It’s a blend of Meunier vinified three ways. Some 60% of the volume is from fruit traditionally pressed off to make a white wine (over one-third of this component was reserve wines that had been aged in barrels). Another 30% was made as a saignée rosé. The final 10% of the blend is from a full-blown red wine. The fruit producing the white wine is from vines with an average age of 25 years, and the vines for the red and rosé wines are more than 40 years old. The wines fermented and aged in various vessels (vat, foudre and old demi-muid barrels) before being transferred to bottle for secondary fermentation. This release is a blend of 2022 (50%) with 50% reserve wines from 2021 and 2020; it was disgorged with just 2.5 g/L dosage. It’s an exciting, pretty rosé with the ripe Meunier’s juiciness offset by brisk, mouthwatering acidity and the salty chalk expression that typifies the best wines of the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. A must try." - Importer Notes
"The NV Extra Brut Rosé de Meunier is dazzling. Rich yet focused, with superb depth, Laherte's Extra Brut Rosé is a magical Champagne in every way. Orange peel, sweet red berry fruit, cranberry, mint and chalk are some of the many aromas and flavors that develop as this breathtaking Champagne shows off its pedigree." - 94 Points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous
