Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal avec Etui *

Freshness and absolute purity. Amber colour with green and orange reflections. Fine, regular and dynamic effervescence. Complex and intense bouquet of candied citrus fruits, yellow fruits, Williams pear, pollen and toasted almond. The delicate charm of an intense, precise and chiselled bouquet. Huge attack, both broad and tight. The material is present but takes on a particular form in 2008: it is not the sun that has concentrated this material, almost saline, but the dryness of the chalk during a summer marked by cool temperatures. The result is a tactile, almost liquor-like sensation that really rolls off the palate, both powerful and sweet, and continues through an incredible finish of freshness and an impression of absolute purity, taut and ultra-saline. The energy of this wine has mellowed thanks to a particularly long ageing period in the bottle: Cristal 2008 has in fact been aged for 10 years at the time of its release. A first! This Cristal 2008 is deep, intense and masterful. It is the quintessence of the chalky soils that give this impression of substance and delicate tension.