LOUIS ROEDERER CRISTAL Vintage 2018

Description

Cristal 2018 opens a new chapter in the history of Louis Roederer! A very warm, dry and generous vintage: after an unusually rainy winter and a mild and stormy spring, came an especially hot and sunny summer. The harvest, from August 27 to September 8, was abundant and with grapes in an almost perfect state.

To preserve freshness in such a mature vintage, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon expanded the selection from the usual 45 plots to 57 lieux-dits in Verzenay, Verzy, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Aÿ, Avize, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Cramant, with more Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs. Blending of 57% Pinot Noir and 43% Chardonnay, with 28% of the wines vinified in oak, without malolactic fermentation, and with a dosage of 7 g/l. A child of chalk that radiates freshness despite the sun of the vintage!