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

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

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broad-shouldered Champagne for the dinner table

with explosive energy to back things up

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.