Heidsieck/Charles Brut Rosé Champagne 2012

97 points Bettane & Desseauve Guide (2024).

94-96 points Essi Avellan, MW: "(62% Pinot Noir including 9% red wine and 38% Chardonnay). The sumptuously fruity yet fresh and immediately impressive character of the 2012 vintage perfectly fits the Charles Heidsieck house style. This vintage rosé is a blend of 11 Grands and Premiers Crus (Oger, Vertus, Chouilly, Cuis, Verzy, Aÿ, Ludes, Ambonnay, Tauxières, Avenay and Les Riceys) with 9% of Pinot Noir red wine giving it its medium-deep salmon colour with copper tones. The lush fruit profile is ripe with sweet, vanilla-coated peach and dried apricot layers. A charmingly airy and lacey palate carries the wine to its long, intensely fruity, spice-complexed finish. A stylish wine of morish quality to it. Drinking perfectly well already but with lots more to come. (Apr 2023)"

95 points Wine Spectator: "[$200 list] Fragrant, with wafts of roasted nuts and toasted brioche -- a profile that underscores the palate's flavors of steeped raspberry, peach skin, ground coffee, vanilla and candied mandarin orange peel. Reveals vibrant, well-integrated acidity, which keeps this rich version trim and focused and drives the long, fine-textured finish. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Disgorged 2021. Drink now through 2035. 125 cases imported. (9/20/23)"

95 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "A very elegant vintage rosé with wonderfully expressive red berry, blood orange and rhubarb aromas. Complex and finely-nuanced, this glides over your palate in spite of the healthy structure. Long finish that's driven by the fine tannins and chalky minerality. The same basic blend as the 2012 vintage champagne from this house, but with 9% of red wine. Drink or hold. (8/7/23)"

95 points La Revue du Vin de France: "The 2012 rosé reaches new heights, a wine for meditation. (2024)"

94 points Tom Hewson (Decanter): "This is the same as the 2012 blanc save for the 9% red wine addition. It’s a later disgorgement, though, and the effect is noticeable – this hasn’t yet developed all the patisserie richness of its sibling, instead seeming detailed and more subtle with peach, raspberry and quince flavours sitting with a gentle praline richness. Touches of dark spice and toasted nuts are creeping in, too. Refined, long and balanced, this is approachable, succulent and subtly layered. Drinking Window: 2023-2033. (Apr 2023)"

94 points Wine Enthusiast: "Impressively young, this Champagne also has great maturity. This balance and tension gives it crisp fruit along with touches of spice. The wine, aged for 10 years on its lees, is now ready to drink. Alcohol 12%. (Dec 2023)"

93 points Yohan Castaing (Wine Advocate): "Disgorged with nine grams per liter dosage in 2021, the 2012 Brut Rosé is a blend of 62% Pinot Noir and 38% Chardonnay sourced from 11 villages. Nine percent red wine from Les Ryceys has been added. Offering up aromas of blueberry, wild strawberry, pomegranate, almond and spring flowers, the palate is energetic with lively acids, perfectly balanced and juicy, but it already exudes freshness and clarity that lead to a finish with a light grace note of gastronomic bitterness. It will drink at its peak in four to six years’ time. Drink: 2023-2030. (4/20/23)"