Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
A candidate for wine-of-the-vintage honors in Champagne, Roederer’s 2013 Cristal Rosé is showing brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with notes of crisp orchard fruit, white flowers, red berries, stone fruit, freshly baked bread and tangerine oil. Full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, the vintage’s bright girdling acids are amply cloaked in exuberant, expressive and notably concentrated fruit; so while this Cristal is as tensile and age-worthy as one would expect, it’s also impressively fleshy and generous given the year. Concluding with an intensely sapid finish, the 2013 isn’t as overtly structured as the muscular, tightly wound 2012; rather, it’s the 2013’s alliance of cut and flesh, precision and charm that’s so compelling this year. This is another banner vintage for what I consider the reigning champion of the region’s tête de cuvée bottlings, and it will be worth an effort to acquire.
Features
Type of wine
Champagne
Pairings
Caviar, Sushi
Style
Creamy and ripe
Occasions
Romantic Dinner, Business Lunch, Anniversary Dinner, Gift
Winery
Louis Roederer
Size
75 cl.
Country
France
Region
Champagne
Appellation
Champagne
Alcohol
12.0%
Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Minimum ageing of 48 months in bottle.















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