Roederer Cristal Brut 2015 (750ml)
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Description
Louis Roederer's Cristal Brut 2015 is a Champagne made from 60 percent Pinot Noir and 40 percent Chardonnay, sourced from all 45 vineyard plots designated for this prestige cuvée. The 2015 vintage was warm and dry, yet the wine carries remarkable freshness and elegance characteristic of the year.
The nose unfolds slowly in the glass, revealing citrus blossom, mint, lemon zest, and hints of stone fruit alongside notes of ginger, crushed white flowers, and subtle pastry. The palate strikes with mouthwatering acidity and generous texture, showing layers of citrus confit, patisserie apple, and a finely spun minerality that carries through to a long finish marked by chalk and stone fruit. The mousse is exceptionally fine and lively, with a frame of focused precision that balances the wine's depth and richness. Structure remains quite firm, a hallmark of this vintage, and the wine's concentrated core speaks to its seriousness and capacity to age. While approachable now, patience of another year or two will reward the careful collector, allowing the introverted elements to resolve into greater complexity.
Product Details
| Category | Wine |
| Color | White |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Chardonnay - Pinot Noir |
| Producer | Louis Roederer |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Size | 750 ML |
| Subtype | Sparkling |
Expert Reviews
For the warm and dry vintage this has tremendous freshness and elegance. The complex nose of citrus blossom, mint, lemon and lime zest opens up slowly as this aerates in the glass. The wine’s ample structure is still quite firm, which is a vintage characteristic, the mousse very fine but also very lively for an eight-year-old champagne. Cristal fans will love this as it is, but a year or two more in the bottle will do a lot for the very long mineral finish of this youthful masterpiece. A cuvee of 60% pinot noir and 40% chardonnay, picked from all 45 Cristal vineyard plots. (SP)
I have tasted the 2015 Cristal three times so far - once as part of an extensive vertical I will be reporting on shortly, and then later in my office. Those tastings paint a portrait of a complex Champagne that is still finding its center. Tasted at the maison, the 2015 is rich, dense and explosive, with tremendous textural intensity and also a good bit of energy to back it up. Citrus confit, spice, ginger, chalk and dried flowers abound in a Champagne endowed with tremendous aromatic presence in a style that offers notable richness, but lighter than vintages such as 2012. There is a bit of the savoriness that is such a signature of the year, but it is nicely integrated in the wine’s fabric. (AG)
This mouthwatering Champagne has an ethereal quality, with a frame of chiseled acidity and focused precision to the pointillisme-like, vibrant mousse. Yet this shows depth and generous expression, with the finely spun notes of patisserie apple and blackberry fruit opening beautifully on the palate and through the minerally finish, with notes of grated ginger, blood orange granita, salted Marcona almond and anise. *Collectible* (AN)