Paul Dethuné Rosé Brut Grand Cru

The NV Brut Rose Grand Cru is a gorgeous wine endowed with terrific depth, power and richness. Layers of flavor emerge effortlessly on the textured, highly expressive finish. This is a fabulous showing from Dethune. Disgorged: December 2010. Anticipated maturity: 2011-2014.

Watermelon pink. Strawberries nose and a little sweet and Brighton-rock-confected on the palate with a saving framework of cuttlefish-bone chalkiness and bleached beach shells. This wine seemed to sport a dosage that was a little too commercial for my comfort. And then I tasted it with crispy prosciutto and I was undone, all the way. If you're having prosciutto – for brunch, lunch or whatever – this is the purrfect wine.