Most Rosé Champagne Takes a Minute.
This One Takes TWO DAYS.

Dear Artisans,

Ask a Champagne producer why they do not use the saignée method for their rosé, and you will usually get the same answer: it is too risky. Almost every pink Champagne on a shelf anywhere in the world is made by blending — adding a little still red wine to a finished white. It is quick, it is consistent, and it is completely safe.

Laurent-Perrier does it anyway.

Their Cuvée Rosé is 100% Pinot Noir left to macerate on its own skins, drawing colour and aroma out of the fruit itself rather than borrowing it from somewhere else. The window is 48 to 72 hours — and somebody has to watch it. Pull too early and the wine has no structure. Wait too long and it turns heavy and clumsy. There is no second attempt, because the grapes only arrive once a year.

What you get for that trouble is a Champagne that does not taste tinted. It tastes like a basket of red fruit: strawberry, raspberry, red currant, black cherry, with a vinous weight underneath that blended rosé never quite reaches. Eight critics have scored the current release between 91 and 97 points.

Here is what our Artisans actually say back to us, almost word for word every time: it is the creamiest, silkiest, smoothest rosé Champagne they have ever had. That is not just our line, either. The Tasting Panel describes "a broad palate of pure silk." Decanter calls the texture soft. Vinous finds "smooth breadiness." Wine Spectator lands on "the refined mousse." Four critics, working separately, reaching for exactly the words our customers use at the counter — which is about as close to proof as this business gets.

The man now responsible for that window is Olivier Vigneron, who took over the cellars in 2025. He joined the house in 2004 and spent the next twenty years working beside Michel Fauconnet, who ran production there for two decades and gave Laurent-Perrier fifty-two years of his life before retiring. Vigneron did not arrive with a new philosophy — he arrived having already lived this one.

It is worth knowing what else that company owns. Beyond Laurent-Perrier itself, the group holds Salon, Delamotte, de Castellane, Beaumet, Jeanmaire and Oudinot. Salon is the one to pause on: a blanc de blancs made only in vintages it considers worthy, and a bottle of it will cost you four figures. The same house, the same standards, the same people signing off. Then they price the wine below at $94.99.

One more thing worth knowing. In May 2024, Laurent-Perrier became the first Champagne house ever granted a Royal Warrant by King Charles III — and it remains the only one holding it. You can decide how much that matters. I mention it because it is not the sort of thing a house wins by making a safe wine.

Be the one who brought
the good bottle.

The dog days deserve better than whatever was cold. This has the body to stand up to a grilled vegetable terrine, the acidity to cut a ripe Brie de Meaux, and enough elegance to carry the whole first hour on its own before anyone sits down.

It is also, quite simply, a beautiful object to hand somebody. The embossed bottle is modelled on one from King Henri IV's era, and it arrives in its own gift box. Laurent-Perrier calls it the best-selling rosé Champagne in the world. On our shelf, it is the one that leaves fastest.

In 1980, Laurent-Perrier brought back a style the region had abandoned: Champagne with no dosage at all. There is nowhere to hide in a wine like this — the fruit has to be right before it ever reaches the bottle. Only very ripe harvests qualify, selected for high sugar and low acidity, then given at least four years on yeast. Nearly equal parts Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

Bright yellow with a fine bead, citrus and honeysuckle on the nose, and a mineral streak people keep describing as sea air. Bone dry, and surprisingly powerful with it. If the Rosé is the bottle for the toast, this is the one for the oysters.

The safe version is everywhere.
This is not the safe version.

Two days of maceration instead of a minute of blending. Ten crus of Pinot Noir instead of a splash of red. A cellar master who spent twenty years earning the keys, in a house the King chose first and the owners of Salon stand behind. What comes out of all that risk is the creamiest, silkiest rosé Champagne we pour, and the one our Artisans reorder without being asked twice. $94.99 for the Rosé, $84.99 for the Ultra Brut.

Cheers,

— James Tran

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