93+ I really love the style and shape of the 2008 vintage in Champagne and Maison Roederer’s Rosé Millésime is an outstanding example of this lovely year. The bouquet is more refined and filigreed than its 2009 counterpart, offering up a classy, youthful and very fresh constellation of apple, white cherries, discreet smokiness, a complex base of limestone minerality, pain grillé, lovely spice tones and a topnote of rose petals. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very tightly-knit today, with a rock solid core, superb mineral drive, elegant mousse and outstanding focus and grip on the very long and utterly refined finish. This is a beautiful bottle in the making, but it will demand a bit longer in the cellar to fully blossom than the 2009 version. 2020-2045+.