Domaine Meriwether Cuvee Rose 2000

Domaine Meriwether's French winemaker from Champagne, Jean-Louis Denois, made this remarkable Rose sparkling wine in limited quantities during Domaine Meriwether's second year of Methode Champenoise wine production in Oregon in 1999.

As done in many houses in Champagne (such as Gosset, de Cazenove, and Charbaut), this colored wine is made from white Chardonnay grapes purchased from four different growers. The Rose color was achieved by the addition of a small amount of our 1998 Dion Vineyard Pinot Noir table wine to the blended Cuvee base wines prior to bottling and secondary fermentation.