Very attractive aromas of strawberry pie with the crust nicely crispy. Copper and iron too. Medium-bodied with real pinot noir character as well as salted butter, hints of barrel and a juicy finish. 64% barrel-fermented pinot noir (5% still red wine), 28% chardonnay and the rest pinot meunier. Rosé just keeps getting better. Drink now.

There’s a sense of precision to this elegant rosé Champagne, with its chalky base note and crisp, lacy mousse supporting a finely woven range of crushed white cherry and white raspberry fruit, smoked almond, ground ginger, anise and saffron. Long and refreshing, with finely honed acidity defining the finish.

(93+ points) First released in 2008, the NV Champagne Brut Rosé is the release based around the 2021 vintage. A medium salmon hue (only 5% red wine is added to the blend), the nose is beautiful and has a lovely touch of opulence in its notes of preserved Amarena cherries, ripe red fruit, toasted brioche, and fresh roses. The palate offers a luxurious feel, with power and elegance that suggest decadence, but it’s not sweet. It has a refined mousse, with a chalky and pithy, orange-tinged structure, wonderful length, and a good core that will easily age another 10 or more years. - Audrey Frick

The current release of Bollinger non-vintage Brut Rosé is made from a blend of sixty-two percent pinot noir, twenty-four percent chardonnay and fourteen percent pinot meunier, with five percent of the pinot noir being still red wine. Thirty percent of the vins clairs were barrel-fermented for this bottling, with fifty percent of the blend being comprised of reserve wines. It was given two and a half to three years aging sur lattes and finished with a dosage of seven grams per liter. The wine is a beautiful salmon color and offers up a bright and very classy bouquet of strawberries, cherries, rhubarb, chalky soil tones, cinnamon, rye bread, a touch of orange peel and a topnote of dried rose petals. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, precise and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, superb mineral undertow, a fine spine of acidity, elegant mousse and a long, poised and impeccably balanced finish. This is first class Brut Rosé!

The latest release of Bollinger's NV Brut Rosé is showing especially well, offering up complex aromas of sweet stone fruit, honeycomb, freshly baked bread and orange oil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, pillowy and vinous palate. Layered and concentrated, with a pretty pinpoint mousse and ripe but racy acids, it concludes with a long, expansive finish. - William Kelley