🍾 Dom Ruinart Rosé 2009

Dom Ruinart Rosé 2009 is the 2009 release of Dom Rosé by the house Ruinart, a vintage rosé Champagne.

According to the house, the wine is 85 % Grand Cru Chardonnay (Cramant, Avize, Chouilly, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Sillery) and 15 % Grand Cru Pinot Noir from Aÿ vinified as red wine. It aged at least 11 years on the lees; the dosage is 4 g/l and the alcohol content 12.5 %. After a dry summer the harvest began in mid-September.

The house Ruinart was founded on 1 September 1729 in Reims by Nicolas Ruinart; its cellars lie in old chalk pits (crayères). According to the house, Chardonnay is its signature grape and appears in all its cuvées.

The boundaries of the Champagne area were set by a law of 6 May 1919: parts of the Marne, Aube, Aisne, Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne departments. The designation’s specification allows seven grape varieties, dominated by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; grapes are picked as whole bunches, that is by hand, and the yield is limited to 10,400 kg per hectare.

According to the Comité Champagne, Champagne is served chilled to 8–10 °C, and bottles are kept in the dark at a steady 10–15 °C, without vibration. An opened bottle is best closed with a sparkling-wine stopper and kept cold.

It is sold under the protected designation of origin Champagne: the bubbles come only from a second fermentation in the bottle, and the wine is aged for at least 15 months before sale (36 for vintage). Check the label for the sugar term (brut, extra brut and so on): the house does not state it on the wine's page.

Why it matters to you. The year on the label is the harvest year, so different years of the same line are different wines. The WHO reminds: there is no safe level of alcohol.