Pink and vintage champagnes

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We may not be buying expensive fizz in anything like the way we did as recently as a year ago, but last week saw the annual generic champagne tasting in London, where most of the 80+ champagnes noted below were tasted, preceded by an occasionally amusing 'update' media briefing. As I outline in my overview tomorrow, I decided to survey the rosés on offer since this is still a relatively popular category and I had not systematically reviewed pink champagne since this 2004 pink champagne survey. Incidentally, searching for this 2004 FT article (which I note was not accompanied...