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Louis Roederer Cristal Rose Vinotheque 1996
HED51024
75 cl
12%
£1,723.00
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1996 Cristal Rosé Vinothèque is a remarkable wine bottle-aged on lees for 10 years and left to rest for a further 10 years post-disgorgement. The result is complex aromas of dried fruit, hazelnuts, cocoa beans and lemon with aeration revealing notes of sugared almonds and roasted pine nuts. On the palate it is silken and generous flowing to a long, sensuous finish delicately laced with smoke.
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Jancis Robinson
Wafting from the glass with aromas of mandarin oil, warm bread and raspberries, mingled with notes of clear honey, blanched almonds and pastry cream, the 1996 Cristal Rosé Vinothèque is showing superbly. It's full-bodied, tensile and searingly chalky, but this concentrated and intense wine's racy spine of acidity is beautifully integrated. This was the first blend Lécaillon presided over as a Roederer employee—three years before he was appointed chef des caves in 1999—and it was clearly a harbinger of great things to come. Amazingly, the finished pH is fully 2.82, yet the wine is perfectly balanced.William Kelley5th March 2020
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