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2008 Champagne Cristal Roederer - Brut | € 385,00 (€ 465,85) |
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Deze adembenemende 2018 Cristal Roederer wordt aanzien als de beste ooit gemaakt. Het is overduidelijk de meest perfecte expressie van de meest legendarische Champagne. 60% Pinot Noir en 40% Chardonnay afkomstig van 36 percelen in 7 Grands Crus: Verzy, Verzenay, Beaumont and Aÿ voor Pinot Noir en Mesnil, Avize and Cramant voor Chardonnay. De zomer van 2008 was droog en koel en het klimaat continentaal. Er kon laat geplukt worden tegen lagere aciditeit. 25% werd gevinifieerd op eik en 16% onderging malo-lactische gisting. In mei 2009 werd er gebotteld. Na de langste élevage sur lie ooit (8,5 jaar) werd voor het eerst gedegorgeerd in september 2017 met een vrij lage dosage van 7,5 gr/l. Dit is calcaire op zijn best! Een fenomenaal equilibrium tussen verfrissende verfijning en intense complexiteit is het resultaat. Volgens keldermeester Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon is dit "de Chevalier Montrachet van Champagne". IN DE PERS 100 James Suckling – jamessuckling.com With staggering density and impressive balance, this is one of the greatest Roederer Cristal ever made. It’s a wine for the long term, and it’s best to leave it for six or seven years in the cellar before drinking. However, the vibrant youth of this great champagne is hard to be patient with. Simply put, it’s great to drink anytime. 98+ Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Juli 2018) The 2008 Cristal is a wine that takes over all the senses and never lets up. The brilliance and cut of the Chardonnay finds an extra kick of resonance from the Pinot Noir to carry the mid palate and finish in this stunningly beautiful, chiseled Champagne. Lemon oil, almond, flowers, dried herbs and Mirabelle plum are some of the many aromas and flavors that develop as the 2008 shows off its pedigree. The 2008 is a regal, towering Champagne from Roederer. That’s all there is to it. 97+ Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Juli 2017) The 2008 Cristal is a real head-turner. Powerful, ample and explosive in all of its dimensions, the 2008 takes hold of the sense and never lets up. There is a crystalline purity to the flavors that is simply remarkable. Although still a baby, the 2008 looks like it will soon take its place alongside the greatest Cristals. Today, it is breathtaking. 98 William Kelley – robertparker.com (Maart 2020) Disgorged in September 2017 with 7.5 grams per liter dosage, the 2008 Cristal was produced from 37 of the 45 parcels that are candidates for inclusion in this cuvée—some 40% of which were farmed organically back in 2008—and it's a blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay. The finest young Cristal in decades, the wine wafts from the glass with a pure and vibrant bouquet of crisp orchard fruit, clear honey, warm brioche, citrus zest and white flowers. On the palate, it's full-bodied, intense and incisive, with superb concentration, racy acids and a long, searingly chalky finish. Pristinely balanced, there are some 500,000 bottles of this legend-in-the-making. Drink 2022-2050. 97+ Stephan Reinhardt – robertparker.com (Juni 2018) Let's start describing the 2008 Cristal technically first. It is a 60/40 blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from 36 plots in seven grands crus: Verzy, Verzenay, Beaumont and Aÿ for the Pinot Noir and Mesnil, Avize and Cramant for the Chardonnay. Twenty-five percent of the wine was fermented in oak, and 16% underwent malolactic fermentation to moderate the fresh acidity of the 2008 vintage. The assemblage was bottled in May 2009. After 8.5 years on the second lees (longer than any Cristal before), the first release was disgorged in September 2017 with a relatively low dosage of 7.5 grams per liter. So, here is how it tastes as a "young" cuvée: The 2008 Cristal opens bright, super clear, fresh and pure on the exciting, absolutely fascinating nose with its fine, complex and elegant bouquet of gorgeously ripe and matured fruits, brioche and chalk expressions. This is the finest you can get from Champagne. The palate is pure, lean, fresh and filigreed but concentrated, highly complex, full of tension and enormously vibrant. This is a great vin de terroir, a dense and elegant Super-Cristal that goes straight and precise as a laser beam over the palate but also has texture in the form of sensually fleshy fruit. The dosage, however, is the lowest ever: just 7.5 grams. The endless and highly tensioned finish is complex, citrusy fresh, full of chalk and crystalline finesse. The 2008 Cristal is a vitalizing drug, "the Chevalier Montrachet of Champagne," as Jean-Baptise Lécaillon puts it. It is the most exciting 2008 Champagne I have tasted thus far (May 2018). 100 Alberto Lupetti – lemiebollicine.com Never has a champagne achieved such perfection on its début - absolutely top marks. Cristal 2008 has succeeded in doing just that. What more is there to say? It has everything and more. This is when you realise that, if you are to judge it, you shouldn’t try looking for it, but turn your thinking on its head and ask yourself: What does it lack? What’s wrong with it? Nothing. Balance and perfection. 100 Wine Enthusiast This latest incarnation of the famous brand is a superb wine. It is on par with, maybe even better than, the already legendary 2002. Its balance is impeccable, apple and citrus flavors working with the tight minerality to give a textured yet fruity wine. Produced from Louis Roederer’s own vineyards which are mainly biodynamic, the wine has its own intense purity and crispness. It has amazing potential and is likely to age for many years. VOLGENS WIJNMAKER JEAN-BAPTISTE LECALLON The newly born Cristal 2008 comes to us with a patient heart, full of promise. It has been shaped by time and by its unique chalky soils and is now ready for us to enjoy after ten years of ageing. The 2008 vintage was a continental year, intense and hot, with scorching temperatures and weather which was a nimble succession of sunny and cool spells. Cristal 2008 is the embodiment of this concentration, intensity, energy and complexity. Cristal has a restrained strength and a pervasive purity, like a lithe ballerina’s impossibly graceful leap through the air... A fine balance of finesse and power, energy and sensuality, Cristal captures all differences, reconciles all contrasts. Borne by its delicate substance, its notes of white fruit, candied citrus and toasted almonds harmoniously combine to create an endless parade of nuances. This is a cleverly seductive wine! Amber hue with green and orange tints. Fine, even and lively sparkle. Complex and intense bouquet disclosing candied citrus, yellow fruit, Williams pear, pollen and toasted almond. The delicately seductive bouquet shows intensity and well-honed precision. The wine is powerful, full yet tight, on entry to the palate. The 2008 is undeniably well structured but in a particular way: the wine’s almost saline concentration has not been created by the sun but is derived from the dryness of the chalk soil in a particularly cool summer. The result is a smooth, almost liquorous, mouthfeel that coats the palate with a powerful yet soft texture. This gives way to an incredible finish, underpinned by freshness and an impression of absolute purity with a taut and very saline character. Cristal 2008 is deep, intense and masterful. It offers the quintessential reflection of its chalk soils which lend its velvety texture and delicate tension. This wine’s energy has been tamed by an unusually long period of bottle ageing: Cristal 2008 was in fact aged for 10 years before its release on the market. A first! Louis RoedererLouis Roederer is het meest gereputeerd, onafhankelijk en familiaal Champagnehuis. Sinds 1776 staat het huis synoniem voor de allerfijnste Champagne, Louis Roederer erfde het huis in 1833 en gaf het zijn naam. Het huis overleefde zowel de Grote Depressie als Wereldoorlog II en werd leverancier van menig koningshuis. Naast het legendarische Cristal lanceerden ze in 1974 Cristal Rosé en in 2014 een “(2006) Brut Nature” naar een ontwerp van designer Philippe Starck. In 2021 werd Collection geïntroduceerd als een "multi-vintage bland" ter vervanging van Brut Premier. Met een ruim patrimonium van 240 hectare Grand Cru en Premier Cru, kan Roederer zelfstandig voorzien in 70% van zijn noden. Geen enkel ander Champagnehuis kan dit zeggen. In 2002 zetten ze als eerste "Grande Marque" de stap naar biodynamie. |