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| Champagne Louis Roederer Brut Premier - NV |
| Reims, France |
| Our Price: |
$79.50 |
| 6+ : |
$76.32 |
| 12+ : |
$73.14 |
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Varietal
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56% Pinot Noir, 34% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Meunier
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Closure
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Cork
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Size
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750ml
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Alc/Vol
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12.5%
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Enjoy
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Now - 2015
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Brut Premier is the embodiment of Louis Roederer style, combining all the fruitiness and freshness of youth with the vinosity of a fully mature wine. This is a structured and elegantly mature wine, with a lively attack and a smooth palate.
56% Pinot Noir, 34% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Meunier, including 10% of reserve wines from three former harvests, aged in oak casks for 2-6 years. An average of three years ageing on lees, plus another six months after disgorging. Pale golden colour. Delicate, persistent beading. Rich yet subtle bouquet with hints of hawthorn, almonds and toast. Clean attack, creamy structure. The inclusion of reserve wines gives the complexity and roundness characteristic of Louis Roederer champagnes.
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What the critics think
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Louis Roederer is one of our very favourite champagne houses. This latest shipment of non-vintage is very fresh and would benefit from a few months more in bottle, but it’s still a fine introduction to the Roederer style: subtle, more-ish, smooth and long-flavoured with a lovely sherbetty-ness. Food fishy pre-dinner nibbles. Ageing drink over two years. Rating; 5 Star
Huon Hooke and Ralph Kyte-Powell - Epicure Uncorked – The Age
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Arguably the most reliable non-vintage champagne of them all, made by one of the very last family-owned large houses with their own grapes...Of the well-known, so-called grandes marques of champagne (no longer an official title), Bollinger, Louis Roederer, Pol Roger and Veuve Clicquot all carry a premium. But heavy Bollinger can be awkwardly angular when young, racy Pol Roger can also need a little bottle age to show its best and variable Veuve Clicquot can be downright disappointing in my view. But I have yet to experience a bottle of Louis Roederer Brut Premier that did not taste deliciously superior and ready to drink.
Jancis Robinson MW - www.jancisrobinson.com
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