Tarlant Brut Nature Rosé Champagne Zero NV

93+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The Rosé Zero from Benoît and Mélanie Tarlant is composed of a blend of fifty percent chardonnay, forty-four percent pinot noir and six percent pinot meunier. It is from the base year of 2013, with plenty of reserve wines in the cuvée. It was aged five years sur latte and disgorged at the end of January of 2019. It is a lovely salmon color and offers up a superb bouquet of nectarine, rhubarb, tangerine, rye bread, chalky soil tones, dried flowers and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a fine core, excellent mineral drive and grip, elegant mousse and a long, very well-balanced finish. As I have said previously, the Tarlant family understands that non-dosé wines demand extended time in the cellar to tame the acids before they are released, so this wine is now drinking beautifully. Fine, fine juice! 2021-2045. (Mar/Apr 2021)"

93 points Tyson Stelzer (The Champagne Guide): "(2013 base vintage; disgorged mid-2018; 50% chardonnay, 36% pinot noir, 14% meunier; Vallée de la Marne; 13–14% red wine; 2012 reserves; no malolactic fermentation; aged 4.5 years on lees; zero dosage). Tarlant blends one-third white wine of pinot noir with pinot red wine, and adds young-vine pinot and one or two barrels of red meunier for ‘redness’ character without tannin. ‘The duality of pinot noir red wine and white wine define this cuvée, and if this doesn’t work in a vintage then I don’t make it,’ he says. One of Champagne’s very first zero-dosage rosés remains one of the best. A very pretty medium salmon crimson is paler than usual, in spite of a full addition of 13–14% red wine. Delightful strawberry and red cherry fruit integrity is underlined by the roast nuts and toasty complexity of long age. An alluringly creamy and silky texture is thanks first to natural maturity in the grapes, second to a carefully handled oxidative approach in barrels, and finally to a long life on lees. An outstanding Rosé Zero of line, length and integrity. (2020-2021)"

93 points James Suckling: "Plenty of dried-cherry and cranberry character here, but also candied lemon and angelica. Pretty powerful and highly structured, this is light-years removed from the world of pretty, light rosés. Bold and very mineral finish that’s as austere as it is exciting. A blend of 50% chardonnay with 44% pinot noir and 6% pinot meunier, based on the 2015 vintage. Disgorged on February 1st, 2021. Drink or hold. (1/5/22)"