Laurent-Perrier Champagne Gifts | Cuvée Rosé & Grand Siècle – The Fulham Wine Company

Laurent Perrier Gifts

The rosé Champagne made by maceration, not by blending

Laurent-Perrier gifts built around two bottles that do very different jobs. Cuvée Rosé is 100% Pinot Noir left on its skins rather than tinted with red wine, which is why it looks and tastes the way it does - the reference rosé Champagne since 1968. Grand Siècle Itération N°26 is the prestige cuvée, blended from three declared vintages instead of one. Both arrive in a gift box with our signature large hand-tied ribbon and a message card in your words. Tracked UK delivery, next-day available.

Why Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé is not like other rosé Champagne

Almost every rosé Champagne is made by adding a small amount of still red wine to a white base. Laurent-Perrier does not. Cuvée Rosé is made by maceration, leaving 100% Pinot Noir on its skins for 48 to 72 hours and drawing the juice off once the colour and aroma are where the house wants them - the method behind its salmon colour and its red-fruit character. It was released in 1968 and has been the reference point for rosé Champagne since. The bottle shape, modelled on a seventeenth-century original, is part of why it is recognised across a room.

Grand Siècle: a prestige Champagne gift built from three vintages

Grand Siècle was created in 1959 on a proposition no other house was making: that blending three complementary declared vintages could produce a better wine than any single year on its own. It carries no vintage on the label as a result, only an Itération number - N°26 is the current release here. Chardonnay leads the blend, with Pinot Noir from a small group of Grands Crus, and it spends around a decade on its lees before release. As a gift it sits with vintage and prestige Champagne rather than with the everyday houses.

How Laurent-Perrier gifts are boxed and delivered

Both bottles arrive in a gift box, hand-finished with our signature large hand-tied ribbon and sent with a message card carrying your own words. No pricing goes in the box, so it can be sent straight to the recipient. Orders travel tracked across the UK mainland with next-day available. Rosé Champagne from the other houses is worth comparing if Cuvée Rosé is not available in the format you want.

Where Laurent-Perrier sits among the Champagne gift houses

Laurent-Perrier is one of the few large Champagne houses still family-controlled, and its style leans towards freshness rather than weight - none of the range sees oak, and it declares fewer single vintages than most of its peers. That makes it a recognisable name without being the automatic one, which is often what you want in a gift. The full Champagne gifts range carries Bollinger, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger, Krug and Dom Pérignon alongside it.

The Fulham Wine Co. Take

Laurent-Perrier has spent sixty years doing things its own way and being quietly right about them - maceration rosé in 1968, a prestige cuvée built from three years in 1959. Both ideas were unusual then and both are now benchmarks. It is a house we are glad to have on the shelf and gladder still to give.

FAQs About Laurent Perrier Gifts

What is Laurent-Perrier best known for?

Cuvée Rosé, which is the most recognised rosé Champagne in the world and the bottle that established the category when it was released in 1968. Grand Siècle, the house's prestige cuvée, is the other: a blend of three vintages rather than a single declared year, an idea Laurent-Perrier introduced in 1959.

How is Cuvée Rosé made differently?

By maceration rather than blending. The Pinot Noir sits on its skins for 48 to 72 hours so the colour and aroma come from the fruit itself, and the juice is then drawn off and fermented. Most rosé Champagne instead takes a white base wine and adds a measure of still red wine to it.

Why does Grand Siècle have no vintage on the label?

Because it is deliberately made from three different declared years rather than one. The house's position is that blending complementary vintages gets closer to a complete Champagne than any single harvest can. Releases are numbered as Itérations instead of dated, and the current one here is N°26.

Which Laurent-Perrier makes the better gift?

They do different jobs. Cuvée Rosé is instantly recognisable and suits a birthday, a thank you or a celebration where the bottle should be seen. Grand Siècle is a prestige cuvée for a milestone - a significant anniversary, a retirement, a wedding - where the gift is meant to be the main event.

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