Champagne Delahaie house spotlight
Delahaie Brut Rose Champagne, France
Delahaie's Pinot-led Brut Rose from Epernay, wild strawberry and raspberry with a long rich close, NV Champagne you can open at thirty-five dollars.
The Brut Rose is 80 percent Pinot Noir, including a portion of red wine, and 20 percent Pinot Meunier: wild strawberry, raspberry, freshness, and a languorously rich finish, now $35.
Pinot Noir Rose from Epernay, priced like a Tuesday toast
Champagne Delahaie has bottled in Epernay since 1959, drawing Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier from the Marne Valley. The Brut Rose is a rose of black grapes: 80 percent Pinot Noir, of which 15 to 80 percent is red wine, and 20 percent Pinot Meunier, raised in stainless steel. The house tasting note is a lively, intense bouquet of wild strawberry and raspberry, freshness and suppleness, a pure savour leading into a long, languorously rich finish. This is the bottle that puts authentic Champagne Rose on a table at thirty-five dollars.
The house
Champagne Delahaie was established in 1959 in Epernay. The house sources Pinot from premier Marne Valley slopes and bottles traditional-method Champagne.
The wine
80% Pinot Noir with a red-wine portion, 20% Pinot Meunier. Stainless ferment. Wild strawberry, raspberry, a rich close.
The glass
House note: lively red fruit, freshness and suppleness, a long languorous finish. No critic score on this SKU.
The drinker
Serve 46 to 50 F. No decant. Tomato and goat cheese tart, or fried chicken.
Wild strawberry and raspberry, then a long rich close
Delahaie writes a lively, intense bouquet of red fruits, wild strawberry and raspberry, combining freshness and suppleness, a pure savour leading into a long, languorously rich finish. That is Pinot Rose without Chardonnay for lift: red fruit first, then length. Pale salmon in the glass, dry, built for the table as much as the toast.
A blended Rose, not a single harvest. Pinot Noir is the body, including some red wine for color. Pinot Meunier is the 20 percent that keeps the fruit open. Stainless steel keeps it fresh.
Wild strawberry, raspberry, red fruit, a clean Pinot line.
Fine mousse, 80% Pinot Noir, 20% Pinot Meunier, stainless, Brut.
Long, rich, still fresh. Serve 46 to 50 F. No decant.
Pinot Noir, a red-wine portion, then stainless
On the Delahaie sheet, the Brut Rose is 80 percent Pinot Noir of which 15 to 80 percent is red wine, and 20 percent Pinot Meunier. Maturing in stainless steel vats. Traditional method, Epernay. The red-wine fraction is how the Rose gets color and Pinot breadth without a Chardonnay costume. The brief is red fruit, freshness, and a long close.
The house has bottled in Epernay since 1959, combining cellar tradition with modern steel. Marne Valley Pinot is the language.
Serve 46 to 50 F in a white-wine glass if you want strawberry and raspberry to open. A tart or fried chicken is the table language.
An Epernay house built on Pinot, not a grande marque speech
Delahaie is an Epernay bottler from 1959, still pointing this Rose at Marne Valley Pinot Noir and Meunier.
Epernay sits on the Avenue de Champagne and the Marne. Delahaie bottles from that town, not from a tourist slogan.
The Brut Premier is a three-grape cuvee. This Rose is blacks only: Pinot Noir plus Meunier.
The NV Rose is that idea in a glass: strawberry, raspberry, stainless, Pinot Noir first.
A tart, then a crunchy bird
Pinot Rose has the mousse to reset fried crust and the red fruit to meet tomato and goat cheese. Keep the plates salty.
Two plates. One tomato and goat cheese tart. One crispy fried chicken. Both can take Champagne Rose.
Serve 46 to 50 F. No decant. A white-wine glass lets strawberry widen.
Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart
The wine's acidity and bubbles lift creamy goat cheese and tomato tang.
Why it works: Red fruit meets tomato. Mousse resets the pastry. Goat cheese salt keeps the Rose dry.
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Crispy buttermilk fried chicken
Fine mousse resets the palate after each crunchy bite, while red fruit handles the salt.
Why it works: Acidity cuts the crust. Pinot breadth meets the seasoning without extra sweetness.
View Recipe for crispy buttermilk fried chicken (opens in a new tab)Put this Delahaie Rose in the cart
Epernay Pinot Rose, wild strawberry and raspberry. Thirty-five dollars against an $80 typical retail.
Put it in the cart. This is NV Champagne Rose priced for a table that actually pops the cork.
