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Champagne Brut Rosé Cordon Bleu NV 75cl

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89 Robert Parker
De Venoge's NV Cordon Bleu Brut Rosé blends 60% Pinot Noir with 20% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Meunier, including a 7% portion of red wine. It is a nice salmon colored Rosé with delicate and elegant fruit on the fresh and almost floral bouquet. The wine is lithe, fresh, round and elegant on the palate and finishes pretty vinous. Aged for three years on the lees, it drinks very well as an aperitif and with red fruits. My sample is entirely based on the 2013 vintage and was disgorged earlier this year with 7.8 grams per liter of dosage. (Most likely by error, the date of disgorgement is not indicated on the back label.) Tasted November 2017.<br/>Champagne de Venoge's finest wines come along in carafe-shaped bottles that one might call kitsch, but I like them. They don't fit in my fridge door, but my fridge is big and the Champagne's good enough to deserve its own shelf and an upright position. The prestige cuvées Louis XV and Louis d'Or are remarkably elegant and vinous sparkling wines with structure, great complexity and also finesse. The 2006 Brut Rosé is one of the finest you can get, and the 1995 Louis XV is a greatly matured and generous Champagne that is still terribly fresh even though it was disgorged more than ten years ago in 2006. Cellar master Isabelle Tellier is doing a great job; there is not a single disappointing wine in the current portfolio that starts with the easy-drinking Cordon Bleu and offers some sophisticated cuvées in the Princes range. Champage de Venoge is—despite its glorious but volatile history (in terms of frequent changes of ownership)—still an underrated rising star in the Champagne region. Champagne de Venoge is now owned by Lanson-BCC.
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De Venoge

Idyllically situated in the Capital of Champagne, along the famed Avenue de Champagne in Épernay, de Venoge is a real treasure trove. With millions of bottles of Champagne stored beneath the House in chalk cellars, de Venoge is home to one of the richest wine libraries in the region. Conveying the image of nobility, distinction and refinement, de Venoge has quite an interesting history. The House was founded in 1837 by Swiss native, Henri-Marc de Venoge. The de Venoge family can actually trace its roots back to 15th century Switzerland, to where the Venoge river flows into Lake Geneva. Since 1998, the House has joined the Champagne group, Boizel Chanoine Champagne. Today, the House’s wines are distributed in over 40 countries and each bottle is made with the highest of quality standards including low dosages, the use of only first-press juices and long aging periods. Champagne de Venoge offers a rich and complete range of high-quality Champagnes with an excellent value for money.