95 point

Rich and delicious with sliced-strawberry and pie-crust aromas and flavors with hints of cooked butter. Full-bodied with layers of fruit and fine bubbles. More like a delicate red on the palate. Pinot noir from Bouzy and chardonnay mostly from Vertus. Dosage 9 g/L.

95 point

A well-structured Champagne, with a creamy mousse and sense of finesse. Offers flavors of crushed raspberry, passion fruit coulis and toasted brioche, plus accents of lime peel, smoke and spices. Rich yet refreshing, with the refined, lively bead carrying the profile through the lasting finish. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Disgorged 2024.

95 point

Also disgorged in 2024, the 2018 Champagne Millesime Rosé is 9% red wine from Les Riceys, Bouzy, and Ambonnay. Floral and inviting, it reveals notes of strawberries, cherry blossoms, and wet stones. The acidity has focus, and this vintage exhibits a refinement with a silky, soft, stony texture. It’s medium-bodied, with a very elegant feel in this vintage, featuring a totally charming fruitiness that is well reined in. Drink now or over the next 15 years or more.

94 point

The addition of 9% red wine to the 2018 white blend does lend this rosé the edge in terms of complexity and drama in this accessible vintage offering from Charles Heidsieck, which shows pink grapefruit, ginger powder and plush raspberry fruit over a sweet plum skin and bright pink grapefruit palate. The touch of grip the red Pinot addition brings is beautifully invigorating, although the main impression is still of refinement and grace.

93 point

Disgorged in May 2024 with a dosage of nine grams per liter, Charles Heidsieck’s 2018 Rosé Millésimé—a blend of 41% Chardonnay and 59% Pinot Noir, including 9% red wine from Bouzy—has turned out superbly. Rosé often thrives in warmer vintages, and this Champagne exemplifies that tendency. It reveals a complex bouquet of orange marmalade, blackberry and wild strawberry, mingling with pink grapefruit, violet, cherry and wheat toast. On the palate, it is full-bodied, fleshy and layered, with a generous fruit core supported by succulent yet lively acidity and concluding with a perfumed, subtly phenolic finish. Harmonious and seductive, it avoids veering into jammy or exotic excess.