Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame Rose other_regions_australia This very firm but well-balanced

This very firm but well-balanced effort is expressly builtto-age and is going to need plenty of it

(from 40+ year old vines situated at the very top of the hill hard by the Château)

Les Argillières and Les Fremières)

with barbecue spice or steak sauce that frame a core of supple dark fruit

Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame Rose other_regions_australia This very firm but well-balancedThe 2008 Brut Ros La Grande Dame is also showing well, wafting from the glass with notes of red berries, warm spices, toasted brioche and citrus rind. Full bodied, fleshy and enveloping, it's a vinous, muscular wine like its white sibling, with a lively spine of acidity and delicately phenolic back end grip.