Appearance: Ripe yellow with pastel green-gold highlights. Nose: Rich and ripe with juicy fruit aromas (yellow and white peaches, apricot), with a generous sweetness indicating a powerful wine. A hint of brioche starts to show through, but it is the ripe fruit aromas that really dominate. Palate: Full and round on the attack. Fine creamy mousse supporting a powerful wine. The full concentration of the 1996 vintage is really present in this wine. A vinous finish with finesse and freshness and a quite impressive persistence. With a little more time it will develop into an even more beautifully harmonious wine.
BLENDING: 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay. Cristal is produced using only the finest vintages from crus guaranteed to originate from the Louis Roederer vineyard. The wine is left to mature on yeast for five years and spends a minimum period of six months in the cellar after disgorgement. DOSAGE: 11 g/l. The 'liqueurs de dosage' are prepared with the greatest of care from a selected blend of 8 to 10 of the very best crus from the Louis Roederer vineyard and then left to age in oak.
Lustrous amber yellow in colour with exuberant bubbles followed by an equally exuberant bouquet already showing signes of maturity. Unmistakably Pinot Noir nose, dominated by impressions of ripe fruits lightly steeped in alcohol . Airing reveals toasty, wooded notes that bring an even greater sense of complexity. The palate follows through with a classy, robust attack and a midpoint crispness refeclting restrained dosage that lasts all the way to the finish (6 x 75 cl)
The color of the wine is salmon-pink with gold reflections. On the nose, it has rich notes of blackberry and candied fruit. On the palate, it is very round with a creamy texture and delicate bubbles that reveal flavors of blackberries and prunes. The wine has a strong, lingering finish with well-balanced structure typical of the Pinot Noir grape. (6 x 75 cl)