Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal Rosé Brut 2014

Does it get better than 99-POINT 2014 vintage Cristal Rosé Champagne with hundreds of dollars in savings? Dreams do come true.

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Flavor Profile: Crushed raspberries, black currants, smoky spices, wild strawberries, black cherries, mandarin sorbet, Gala apples, chocolate mousse, toasted almond slivers, chalk, and saline

Time on Lees: 72 months

Dosage: 8 g/L

Score: OB99,W&S98, JS98, WA97+, JD97, VN97, WE97, WS96

Why We Love It...

Cristal needs no introduction, hype, or build-up from us… It whispers elegance, charm, and history, all on its own. But what does deserve attention is our exceptional price – hundreds less than what the 2014 Cristal Rosé typically goes for in the U.S.! What’s more, this vintage is one of Champagne’s all-time greats, as evidenced by the 99-point and double 98-point reviews and additional mountains of worthy praise. Time to celebrate, darling!

One hundred years after the creation of Cristal, Jean-Claud Rouzaud chose to craft a Cristal Rosé in 1974. Using old-vine Pinot Noir grapes from the top Grand Cru vineyards in Aÿ, blended with 45% carefully selected Chardonnay grapes, the wine takes on an exquisite mineral quality and full fruit flavors, balanced with mouthwatering acidity. It’s made using the “saignée” (bleeding) process after cold maceration, prior to aging on the lees for 7 years in the Louis Roederer cellars. After all of that, this icon of Champagne is at long last released to hungry connoisseurs, collectors, and the like around the world.

It’s simply no wonder one of Champagne’s oldest houses has an unrivaled history of global greatness that could be the envy of any brand around the world today, wine or not. People who have never had a sip of Champagne know the name Cristal, and those who drink Champagne religiously aspire to drink Cristal when and however possible. The cellar master extraordinaire, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, calls this 2014 release “an almost electric delicacy with great intensity of flavour,” and I’m heavily inclined to agree. This 55/45 blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay comes half from their “la Rivière” Estate and half from their “la Côte” Estate. It is crisp, balanced, and intensely vibrant – a veritable powerhouse of vintage Champagne that will drink pristinely for a decade longer, at least.

Salmon pink with glimmers of copper, the inviting and expressive aromas of crushed raspberries, black currants, and smoky spices allure and beckon gracefully from the first sip. The flavors here are bright, chalky, and fresh as well, with wild strawberries, raspberries, and black cherries preceding notes of mandarin sorbet, Gala apples, chocolate mousse, toasted almond slivers, and chalk. The 19% oak aging for the base gives this beautiful note of croissant dough, but it maintains a strong, almost saline-like acidity, keeping the whole thing bright, zippy, and incredibly elegant. This is unadulterated luxury, and a fantastically pure and riveting cuvée to keep in your collection for your next big celebration, milestone, or gathering with friends. Everyone should try Cristal at least once in their lives… Why not today?

Scores

99 - Owen Bargreen

"The 2014 ‘Cristal’ Rose is a stunning, age-worthy bottling that really needs 30 plus minutes of air prior to consuming. For my palate this eclipses the incredible ’99 and ’02 bottlings — and is absolutely amongst the finest ‘Cristal’ Rose wines ever produced. A short decant in a narrow decanter also does wonders to arouse the aromatics. Given 7G/L dosage, this was disgorged more than two years ago in June 2022. Sourced from the villages of Aÿ, Avize, and Mesnil-sur-Oger, nearly 20% of the base wines were stored in oak prior to disgorgement. This is big and burly with a refined effervescence. Delicate strawberry and red raspberry alongside chalky soils and nuances of kumquat zest with candied ginger all mark the palate. The length and elegance of the wine really shines as this is already drinking beautifully."

98 - James Suckling

"Extremely subtle and delicate, this has an enveloping nose of tiny red berries and dried flowers. This sparkling rosé masterpiece is just beginning to really open up. Fabulous velvety texture on the mouth-filling palate, the very fine mousse already spot on. Tons of structure behind all this, so this should age really well. From organically grown grapes."

98 - Wine & Spirits

"Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon describes the spring of 2014 as sunny and dry, leading up to a heat wave in June. Then a cool, wet summer ended with the return of the dry, sunny heat in September. When our panel tasted the Cristal 2014 last year, I found it confusing, but the Cristal 2014 Rosé is a different beast. With its pale pink color and tight saignée essence of fruit, it's both saturated and lithe; the wine's freshness feels like the sky opening from a summer rain into the sun. Its flavor depths of golden raspberry, barely-pink grapefruit, roasted autumn apple and toasty pumpkin seed hide a dark rosé within the complex flavors of a pale yet intricately detailed white wine. As a young vintage, it yields to the touch, like a tightening muscle, needing a decade or more of cellar time to begin to give itself more completely."

97 - Wine Enthusiast

"The epitome of great rosé Champagne, this is beautifully intense. The fruit and balanced mineral edge are united with mature redcurrant flavors in a wine that is perfectly aged. It is an impressive wine that is ready to drink."

97 - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"Roederer's 2014 Cristal Rosé has turned out beautifully, unwinding in the glass with aromas of sweet cherries, almonds, citrus fruit and red berries mingled with notions of white flowers and wet chalk. Full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, with a layered core of fruit and a pillowy mousse, it's deep, racy and electric, concluding with a long, mineral finish. Comparatively open out of the gates, it's no slight to the 2014's seriousness to say that it will drink well while its 2013 counterpart sleeps in the cellar. Deriving from just a handful of the over 39 blocks that inform the regular Cristal 2014, I suspect that its origins have even more to do with the extra dimension it possesses above and beyond its white counterpart than the subtle infusion of Pinot Noir phenolics that give it its delicate pink hue."

97 - Jeb Dunnuck

"The 2014 Champagne Cristal Rosé is much more open and generous, with brothy and briny elements like an ocean breeze. Coming from two plots of Chardonnay and two plots of Pinot Noir, it has a very natural and ripe, floral perfume of peach and peony. On the palate, there’s an energy and electricity to this wine that could be called the golden point of high-toned energy. With wonderful persistence and a delicate spice as well as notes of peachy fruit, oyster shell, and brine, it’s long on the finish and refined throughout. There’s a light spice to the mousse that accents things well and a cologne of more woodsy spice that draws inward. The finish has a bit of mouthwatering tension and coiled energy that’s going to take time to unfurl, so hold this another few years and drink it over the following 30."

97+ - Vinous

97 - Wine Enthusiast

"The epitome of great rosé Champagne, this is beautifully intense. The fruit and balanced mineral edge are united with mature red-currant flavors in a wine that is perfectly aged. It is an impressive wine that is ready to drink."

96 - Wine Spectator

"This rosé features rich, focused flavors of peach tart, poached apricot and mandarin orange fruit, plus accents of toasted brioche, pastry cream, pickled ginger and pink grapefruit sorbet. Exudes an overall vibrant impression, with a fine interplay of elegance and complexity, showing deft integration of the vivid acidity and the satiny mousse. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Drink now through 2038. 719 cases imported."

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Technical Details

Country: France

Region: Champagne

Appellation: Champagne

Vineyard: All Estate vineyards 50% from la Rivière” and 50% from la Côte

Varietal: Champagne Blends

Blend: 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay

Winemaker: Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon

Oak: 19% of the wine aged in oak tuns

Alcohol: 12.5%

Pair it with: Caviar and potato chips

Louis Roederer Champagne

About the Producer

Champagne Louis Roederer, founded in 1776 and based in Reims, is one of the most prestigious and renowned Champagne houses in the world. Known for its meticulous attention to quality and tradition, the house is family-owned and celebrated for crafting elegant, terroir-driven Champagnes. Its most iconic wine, Cristal, was originally created in 1876 for Tsar Alexander II of Russia and remains a symbol of luxury. Louis Roederer owns over 240 hectares of vineyards, all of which are cultivated with sustainable and biodynamic practices to preserve the unique characteristics of its grapes. The portfolio features an array of exceptional cuvées that showcase the house's dedication to excellence and innovation.

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