Louis Roederer, Cristal Rose Vintage:2006 leaf and smoke create the

leaf and smoke create the perfume

Light in style

licorice and black cherry notes

I really like the amount of dry extract here as it relegates the still firm tannins to the background and this should age effortlessly for years to come

Louis Roederer, Cristal Rose Vintage:2006 leaf and smoke create theThe finest rendition of this cuve that Lcaillon has produced to dateand, indeed, one of the finest wines produced by any of Champagne's important houses in the last two or three decadesis the 2008 Cristal Ros, a brilliant wine that derives from a mere four of the 45 plots that are candidates for inclusion in Cristal, two blocks of Pinot Noir from A, one of Chardonnay from Mesnil and another from Avize, and I suspect that its origin in the crme de la