A sparkling rosé that pairs well with game and foie gras
The 2015 Rosé Réserve Brut is a dry sparkling rosé made entirely from Pinot Noir, grown in the Dalsheimer Bürgel vineyard. This is no light summer rosé for the patio, but a spicy vintage sparkling wine from a hot year that spent eight years on the lees.
Rosé Réserve Brut 2015 is the sparkling rosé from the Raumland sparkling wine estate in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, Rheinhessen, crafted from 100 percent Pinot Noir. Anyone who confuses the Raumland Rosé Réserve Brut 2015 with a light aperitif rosé will be proven wrong with the very first sip. The grapes grow on nearly 30-year-old vines in shell limestone and Terra Fusca soils.
Red summer berries, rhubarb, and pink grapefruit
The Rosé Réserve offers aromas of red summer berries, rhubarb, and pink grapefruit, complemented by a spicy note from the long aging on the lees.
The palate follows with juicy apricot, succeeded by a zesty, tart grapefruit note that brings the sip to a clean finish. 7.6 grams of acidity per liter and a 4.0-gram dosage keep it dry without making it feel austere. Fruit-forward, spicy, and upright in the glass, it possesses a length rarely expected from a rosé.
Following a mild spring and a hot, dry summer, the 2015 harvest took place early in perfect weather—a textbook harvest. Compared to the previous year, the sparkling wines of this vintage turned out more powerful and spicy, and that is something you can still taste in this rosé today.
Pairs with game, foie gras pâté, and smoked duck
This spiciness makes it the ideal sparkling rosé for the colder months and for dishes where a white wine might fail.
Oven-roasted game is a great match, as is foie gras pâté, because its acidity balances the fat rather than being overshadowed by it. Smoked duck breast on lamb's lettuce hits the berry fruit so precisely that they belong together. A loin of venison with cranberries best demonstrates what this rosé is capable of.
Served in a white wine glass at 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, the fruit remains clear, while the notes of maturity only reveal themselves after a few minutes. It also works as an aperitif, though best served with salted almonds rather than anything sweet.
Eight years between tirage and disgorgement
A rosé crafted this way means the color comes from the red skins during pressing, rather than from blending with red wine. In this way, a sparkling wine is created from red grapes where the color and the fruit originate from the same source.
The base wines for the Raumland Sekt Rosé were aged 100 percent in stainless steel, without any oak influence, so that the Pinot Noir's berry fruit remains unadulterated. The sparkling wine was bottled in June 2016 and disgorged by hand in June 2024, resulting in eight years on the lees.
Volker Raumland founded the estate in 1984, farms 14 hectares organically, and in 2020 became the first winery dedicated exclusively to sparkling wine to be admitted into the VDP. The rosé was bottled with 12 percent alcohol.
Meininger's German Sparkling Wine Award honored it with 92 points in August 2022. Impressive. To see how the same sparkling wine presents in the cooler following year, take a look at the 2016 Rosé Réserve, and you can also find more sparkling wines from Flörsheim-Dalsheim as well as many traditional method sparkling wines in our shop.