Pierre Gimmonet Rosé de blancs 1er Cru Brut NV
- 93
- $105
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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Grower Champagne is all the rage but it can sometimes be a bit hit and miss. Gimmonet applies the grower philosophy – care in the vineyard, expression of site, purity of fruit; with the luxury of substantial holdings of old vines.
The unusual name refers to a Rosé made with only a small volume of pinot noir added to the chardonnay base wine – blanc de blancs being the hallmark of the estate.
It pours a beautiful peachy salmon colour. There’s pink grapefruit, white cherry, and watermelon wedges dripping juice down your chin as you munch them by the seaside. At least 2 years on lees expresses itself as delicate Victoria sponge cake sandwiching layers of fresh strawberries and fluffy whipped cream. All this beguiling prettiness interplays with nutty, pine mushroom savoury notes, ultra fresh acidity, a fine chalky texture and a lingering finish.
Drink with fresh calamari, lightly pan fried and spritzed with Meyer lemon juice.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
