In the glass
Aroma: red berries, pink grapefruit, rose, spice
Palate: fine red fruit, chalk, silky texture, saline length
Cristal in rose form: fine red fruit and pink grapefruit over chalk and spice, with a silky texture and the same saline, racy length as the white.
What it pairs with
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Wild salmon
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Red-fruit lift and chalk balance the oily fish. -
Duck breast
Silky red fruit and spice meet the duck. -
Lobster
Saline chalk frames sweet shellfish meat.
History
Roederer added a rose version of Cristal in 1974, built on the same estate, partly biodynamic Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with a portion macerated for colour.
- 1974 — First Cristal Rose vintage produced
Facts
- Producer
- Louis Roederer
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
- Classification
- AOC Champagne
- Oak
- Maceration; partial oak; estate, partly biodynamic fruit
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- EUR 550 to 850 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 30 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1974
Scores
- Vinous 96 (2009 vintage, reviewed 2021)