Pehu-Simonet Brut Rosé Champagne Face Nord NV

93 points Wine Spectator: "[$65 list] A bright and mouthwatering rosé Champagne, with macerated raspberry and kirsch notes riding the raw silklike mousse. Creamy and harmonious, with violet, grated ginger, orange peel and blanched almond accents. Disgorged November 2021. Drink now. 95 cases imported. (11/30/22)"

93 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "This is also really quite pretty, pure and elegant with its perfumed array of cool strawberry, cherry, currant, yeast and plenty of citrus elements. There is excellent punch and delineation to the moderately powerful medium weight flavors that are shaped by a medium-firm effervescence before terminating in a clean, yeasty and lemon peel-suffused finish. Moreover this is a very dry example relative to what is typical for the genre and I very much liked this overall plus it offers very good value. Drink: now+."

90 points John Gilman (View From The Cellar): "This particular bottle of Pehu-Simonet’s 'Face Nord' non-vintage Extra Brut Rosé is from the base year of 2015 and was disgorged in March of 2018, so it is starting to get some nice bottle age on it. The cépages for this wine is seventy-five percent pinot noir and twenty-five percent chardonnay, with the vins clairs not going through malo and one-quarter of the blend comprised of reserve wines from the solera created for this cuvée back in 2005. The wine was finished with a dosage of four grams per liter and offers up a lovely, complex nose of desiccated cherries, rye bread, chalky minerality, dried roses and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a good core and soil signature, frothy mousse, bouncy acids and lovely balance and grip on the long finish. This is drinking very nicely. 2021-2033. (Sept/Oct 2021)"