Lucien Albrecht Brut Rose Pinot Noir France Sparkling Wine

Pinot Noir grapes have thin skins. The variety makes still red wines, and many sparkling wines use it as a main grape too. This bottle is a sparkling rose made from it. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine.

The origin we have for this bottle is simply France, and a country name is not an appellation. French vines grow within reach of the Atlantic, across the continental interior, along the Mediterranean and near mountain ranges, so no one growing season fits them all. Some French labels add a protected AOP or IGP name with a tightly drawn boundary. For its part, Lucien Albrecht says its Cremant d'Alsace Brut Rose is made from Pinot Noir alone.

In regional grape guides, Pinot Noir is usually described with red cherry, berry and plum. Those guides put its color lighter and its tannin lower than Cabernet Sauvignon's, and they add that, depending on where it grows and how ripe it gets, the same grape can land at the delicate end or at the darker, fuller one.

In our September 2026 checks, store prices for this bottle were between $17.99 and $30.99. If your usual sparkling wine is a white, would a French rose made from one red grape be the change your table wants?

Lucien Albrecht's own product page gives a tasting note for this exact wine, made entirely, it says, from Pinot Noir: it “brings roundness and body in one,” with “nice pink reflections and salmon nuances” and “delicate red fruit character on the palate.” The producer says it makes its Crémants using the traditional method, hand-harvesting fruit into small containers “to maintain the integrity of the fruit” before pressing. The Maison traces itself to 1698, when Balthazar Albrecht settled in the Alsatian village of Orschwihr, and the family, now in its eighth generation on the same land, says it began testing sparkling wine as early as 1971, work that helped establish the official Crémant d'Alsace appellation in 1976.

Our call: this suits a shopper who wants the producer's own tasting note and a genuine, centuries-long history behind the label; Lucien Albrecht names the grape, quotes a tasting note for this exact wine, and ties the style to a Crémant d'Alsace tradition the family helped establish in 1971. Pass if a shopper rating matters more to you than a producer's own account; none is on our record yet for this bottle.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.