Louis Roederer Brut Rose

Description

”HARVESTS 2007 was a mostly warm year, characterised by unexpected and major weather events. Following an exceptionally mild autumn and winter, there was a historic month of April, with warm, dry summery weather, record temperature highs and sunshine worthy of a month of July. To our great surprise, during the summer, the many stormy episodes in June, followed by particularly changeable, cool weather in July and August, caused steady, slow ripening of the grapesparticularly beneficial for the quality of our wines. Finally, the return to dry, windy and persistently cool weather from August 25 onwards completed the ripening process, allowing harvesting to begin in excellent conditions, with the late plots making the most of this meteorological godsend to become fully ripe. The harvests took place in ideal weather, beginning on August 27 for Marne Valley Pinots Noirs, August 30 for Cote des Blancs Chardonnays and August 31 for Reims mountain Pinots Noirs.ELABORATION 70% Pinot noir30% Chardonnay20% wines matured in wood oak barrels with weekly batonnageNo malolactic fermentation. To make its rose champagnes, Louis Roederer always uses the saignee method following cold skin-contact maceration, which may last 5 to 8 days in the liquid phase. The Brut Rose cuvee ages for an average of 4 years in cellars and also spends 6 months resting after disgorging to complete the maturing process.DOSAGEfine-tuned for each vintage, to between 8 and 10 g/l.STYLE Elegant, delicate fruitiness red fruits, full-bodied and winy.TASTING An evanescent light pink colour, with shiny salmony hints. Delicate bubbles, which quickly form a steady, creamy flow. The intense deep bouquet reveals a succession of finely complex aromatic layers first of all fruity, almost tart aromas of wild raspberry and bilberry, reminiscent of a mountain fruit sabayon; next, sweet, warm, delicately rosy pink macaroon floral hints, along with pithy citrus, orange and pink grapefruit; finally, there are warm, sweet, spicy notes, recalling the subtle use made of oak wood by Louis Roederer hints of lightly toasted dried fruits, cocoa and chocolate. It has a lively bite in the mouthfull-bodied, creamy, dense and balanced a gourmet treat! The tactile approach of the ripe Pinot Noir is very clear rich and meaty, concentrated but not at all heavy, a combination of ripe fruit and precise, fresh flavours. The delicate, almost teasing bubbles add to this suave impression, which literally encompasses the sharp freshness. Following this first highly seductive contact, the tight, sculpted winy structure of the Pinot Noir appears once more, along with almost jam-like fruity, floral flavours, blending in perfectly with the minerality and freshness of the Chardonnays.This concentrated yet fresh Rose 2007, the product of August harvests, is a good example of Roederer style roses with all the concentration, fruitiness and compactness of Pinot Noir de Cumieres, transcended by the elegance, purity and freshness of great Cote des Blancs Chardonnays… Real Burgundy overtones in Champagne territory!”- Louis Roederer