2008 Cristal Rosé
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This was the first fully organic vintage for the entire Roederer estate, and marks the start of a new era for Cristal Rosé with its cool “infusion” technique for the Pinot Noir. Paired with the 1995 vintage, the two wines are windows into two completely different worlds of Cristal. With the copper tone of a sunset, it’s a wine of muscle. It’s almost haughty, with length, power and elegance – showing off its flawless structure, with a zesty citrus drive complementing its austerity. The finish is long and saline. It will be incredible to taste this in 20 years’ time. Dosage 8g/l, tasted from magnum.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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From a growing season as cool as 2013 but with the added advantage of age. 2008 was Roederer's first year they were 100% certified organic. (They now have 136 ha certified.) Dosage 8 g/l. Magnum. Pale pink and super-flirtatious on the nose. Very pretty indeed – beautiful balance. Really lively and intriguingly layered. Amazing persistence. (JR)
The finest rendition of this cuvée that Lécaillon has produced to date—and, indeed, one of the finest wines produced by any of Champagne's important houses in the last two or three decades—is the 2008 Cristal Rosé, a brilliant wine that derives from a mere four of the 45 plots that are candidates for inclusion in Cristal: two blocks of Pinot Noir from Aÿ, one of Chardonnay from Mesnil and another from Avize, and I suspect that its origin in the crème de la crème of Roederer's Cristal-worthy holdings has even more to do with the extra dimension it possesses above and beyond its white counterpart than the delicate infusion of Pinot Noir phenolics that give it its delicate pink hue. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of wild strawberries, tangerine, warm pastry and crisp green orchard fruit, the 2008 is medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a racy but beautifully integrated spine of acidity, a multidimensional core and a searingly chalky and laser-focused finish. Impeccably balanced and harmonious, this superb wine represents one of the qualitative peaks of this great vintage. It will be seven or eight years until it truly starts to blossom, but its benchmark quality is already glaringly apparent.
Disgorged December 2017 or early 2018. Deep salmon. Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon pays more and more attention to the colour. ‘You can taste the colour sometimes. I am going for less and less colour with each year.’ 10% red wine. With the fruit from four parcels – two in Aÿ and one each in Avize and Mesnil. Mid to deep salmon. Intense. The line and discipline of 2008 informs this wine. Reductive nose. Some strawberry fruit but overall real tension. Extremely vibrant. Some chew. Very long. Heady development in the glass. (JR)
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