Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame Rose other_regions_australia plus and a lovely array

plus and a lovely array of spice and floral elements

medium to full-bodied

This very firm but well-balanced effort is expressly builtto-age and is going to need plenty of it

broad-shouldered Champagne for the dinner table

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Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame Rose other_regions_australia plus and a lovely arrayThe 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.