Cristal Brut Rose 2009 Champagne 750ml

Cristal Brut Rose 2009 Champagne 750ml

97 pointsVinous

A wine of sublime delicacy and finesse, the 2009 Cristal Ros is simply magnificent. The 2009 is surprisingly refined, silky and nuanced for a wine from a warm vintage. The red and floral-infused overtones are quite attractive, but it is the wine’s exceptional balance that places it among the best new releases of the year. Over the years, I have had the chance to taste many vintages of Cristal Ros, a Champagne that needs bottle age to be at its very best. I suspect that will be the case here as well. Don’t miss it. (AG)(7/2017)

96 pointsRobert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2009 Cristal Ros is a rich and intense expression of Roederer’s Cristal. Due to roughly 55% of old-vines Pinot Noir from A’s calcareous clay soils and the sunny vintage, it has super luscious fruit with a velvety, caressing and powdery-chalky texture and great depth that gives it very good potential to age. There is also remarkable purity, finesse and tension in the energetic 2009, which cellar master Jean-Baptiste Lcaillon compares with the 2012 and the enchanting style of Vosne-Romanne. The 2009 Cristal Ros is like a laser beam on the palate, very straight, sharp and precise yet elegant, intensely fruity and chalky. Very fine wild red fruit flavors feature on the nose, with crystalline freshness on the chalky palate. This is a gorgeous Cristal and another great 2009. In contrast to the 2009 white Cristal, the Ros is perfect to drink now, perhaps only for a few months before it shuts down to start its real life in a couple of years. 96+ points. (SR)(6/2018)