Cocktails with Rosé Champagne
Rosé Champagne is a pink sparkling wine from Champagne — dry, berry-scented, with the fine persistent bead the appellation is known for.
ABV11–14%
Substitutes for Rosé Champagne
Sparkling rosé (non-Champagne)
Any dry sparkling rosé will do. Crémant rosé and rosé cava come closest. Prosecco Rosé is fruitier and lighter.
Dry white sparkling wine
Works too. A few drops of grenadine bring back the pink.
Still rosé wine
It gives the color and the acidity, but a drink topped with it instead of sparkling wine comes out flat.
On the label
- “brut”, “extra dry”, “sec”
- The names run backwards. By the EU dosage bands, in grams of sugar per liter: brut nature under 3, extra brut 0–6, brut under 12. Extra dry is 12–17, sec 17–32, demi-sec 32–50, doux over 50. So a bottle marked extra dry is sweeter than one marked brut.
Description
The color comes one of two ways: a little still red blended into the white base, or a brief maceration on the skins. Champagne is a rare case in EU law where red-into-white is allowed.
