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Manage Subscriptions1997 Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut
Champagne Blend
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Community Tasting Notes 52
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tanduybui Likes this wine: 94 points
September 17, 2023 - Such a gorgeous wine and sculpted wine, a truly sublime experience.
Fine beads wrapped in contrasting beautifully against the golden yellow colour. Lovely bouquet of pear and sweet apple tart, the body had lovely notes honey and full of sweetness to remind one of a sweet shop in one's youth. Finely balanced acidity and lovely tension, finish was full of plushness, one that had a real Gucci feel about it.
Drink now or 7+ years. -
Collector1855 wrote: 96 points
June 19, 2022 - Blind tasting lunch. Wonderful mature nose of bakery spices, bruised apples, not oxidative yet very complex with dried apricot and orange rind as well. Excellent showing, very popular at the table. 96+
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sirpat00 wrote: 94 points
June 18, 2022 - Tasted blind. Bruised apple fruit, honey and caramel and some nutty, almond-like notes. Nice and fresh palate with a slightly creamy texture. Refined and balanced, beautifully aged sparkler.
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Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 93 points
June 7, 2022 - In magnum.
Dress still very young with an effervescence still very much alive.
Very mature nose. It is both floral, on exotic fruits and notes of wet stones.
The palate is in line with the nose, with caramelized and apricot notes, and popcorn. Complex, lively and delicate at the same time, it is a complete and balanced wine, the archetype of fine champagne vinified with precision. Great chalky finish, trailing like a furrow.
Excellent, and the magnum effect comes into play given the youth of the wine. -
acyso wrote: 93 points
May 26, 2022 - Champagne study (Chicago, IL): Cristal is such a stylistic contrast to Krug, and having this next to the 168eme made that very stark in a lot of ways. Cristal is much more autolytic and sweet, and there is a confectionary sweetness on the palate that is quite easy to love. Far more yeast-inflected, this feels like it's driven less by the acids than just by the overall idea of plushness. It just feels like a luxurious wine. Drinking very well, I enjoyed this despite not generally being the biggest fan of Cristal.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 1997
- Type White - Sparkling
- Producer Louis Roederer
- Varietal Champagne Blend
- Designation Cristal Brut
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Champagne
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Champagne
- UPC Codes 3114080043059, 734599043055
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 1 (0%)
- In Cellars 564 (63%)
- Consumed 324 (36%)
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