Medium

Cork

White

France

With the bottles for Roederer’s Late Release repeatedly shaken before disgorgement (called 'poignetage'), this series picks up extra savoury, textural depth over the standard release as well as an engaging degree of age-related complexity. The vintage is naturally bright, even austere, but in addition to the extended lees ageing of 13 years, the time on cork (now standing at four years) has also warmed up the flavour profile with crusty sourdough, ginger snap, dried apple and briny hints meeting intense Seville orange citric focus and still-present, gentle raspberry Pinot sweetness. All in all this is a ravishing Cristal, of which magnums are even more exceptional.

Chardonnay

Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

Louis Roederer, Cristal Late Release, Champagne, France, 2008

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With the bottles for Roederer’s Late Release repeatedly shaken before disgorgement (called 'poignetage'), this series picks up e

Louis Roederer, Cristal Late Release, Champagne, France, 2008

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