Louis Roederer Brut Premier - $43.89

Wine Details

Price: $43.89
Producer: Louis Roederer
Region: Champagne
Varietal: Brut
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors: apple, fresh herbs, peppermint
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Product Description

  • A blend of 1/3 Chardonnay and 2/3 Pinot Noir and Meunier of the year, as well as 10% reserve wines matured in barrels for two to five years, Brut Premier is matured on lees for an average of three years. With its pale golden color and fine bead, a bouquet with hints of hawthorn, almonds and toast, it has a clean attack and creamy structure. "Its style is paradoxical", says Jean-Claude Rouzaud: "a marriage between youth and age, vinosity and freshness, delicate and rounded, fruity yet without acidity." It is enjoyed as an aperitif, or as an accompaniment to light entrees of fish and shellfish.

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
Tanzer - 88 Details: ($53; L029678A100795) Light gold with a fine bead. Pungent, herb-accented citrus and pear aromas are complemented by zesty spices and minerals. Round and toasty, offering deep pear and apple flavors, a pliant texture and a lush but incisive finish, with echoes of toast and minerals. (Maisons Marques & Domaines, Oakland, CA) NV Tanzer apple, fresh herbs, peppermint
Tanzer - 88 Details: ($41) Bright aromas of orange, acacia honey and toast. Brisk and lively in the mouth, with spicy flavors of quince, pear and cinnamon apple. Boasts very good density and extract. Spice notes lift the subtle, lingering finish. Not a wine of great individuality but better than most basic non-vintage brut bottlings. 88 points NV Tanzer
Tanzer - 88 Details: Bright aromas of green apple, orange peel, ginger, chalk and mint, along with a faint metallic quality. Rich and creamy in the middle but with a firm spine of acidity. Complicating toasty nuance. A medium to full non-vintage brut that perfect for drinking right now. Finishes ripe, persistent and toasty. 88 points NV Tanzer apple, cinnamon, honey, orange, pear, spice, spicy, toast
Tanzer - 88 Details: ($41) Bright aromas of apple and baking spices. Creamy, fat and rich but not at all heavy. Slightly exotic flavors of baked apple, pear and baking spices. In part due to its substantial body, this wine gives the impression of a fairly full dosage Finishes nicely firm and clean. 88 points NV Tanzer apple, pear, spices
WineEnthusiast - 91 Details: From the famous maker of Cristal comes a truly lovely, ripe bottle of bubbly, bursting with buttered, roasted nuts and lemony fruit. The Brut Premier spends a little extra time in bottle before being released. It makes for a forward, lush and just plain delicious style of Champagne rather than one that is especially complex or elegant. If anything, this bottle will put you in a boisterous mood and keep any party hardy. NV WineEnthusiast nuts
WineEnthusiast - 89 Details: Basic Champagne, but done exceedingly well, with toasty, yeasty aromas that dominate the nose, joined only by fleeting scents of lime. Medium in body, slightly creamy in the mouth, with more toast and citrus and even some chalky mineral notes on the finish. NV WineEnthusiast citrus, lime, mineral, toast, yeasty
WineEnthusiast - 88 Details: A big bruiser of a brut, with fat bubbles and fat flavors of bubblegum, coconut, tropical fruits and sweet vanilla. In short, a cornucopia of ripe, tropical fruit flavors; big, broad and wonderful. NV WineEnthusiast coconut, tropical fruits, vanilla
WineEnthusiast - 87 Details: A solid choice, though perhaps not especially inspiring, the nonvintage Roederer Brut has a crisp apple-floral-toast nose and a light, even mouthfeel with lively bead. More apple appears on the palate, plus tart lemon and chalk notes. Finishes long and crisp, with similar flavors. A bit young-consider aging for 2-3 years. NV WineEnthusiast
WineEnthusiast - 89 Details: Ripe, rich and round up front; then this moves into some interesting, concentrated flavors of spicy, lightly candied fruits. There is also a definite mineral lift to it. The acids are strong but not abrasive, and the wine carries a stony freshness through the finish. It does not evolve, but it persists and cleanses the palate while inviting another sip. NV WineEnthusiast apple, chalk, lemon
WineEnthusiast - 92 Details: A classic nonvintage Champagne, Brut Premier is also a yardstick by which others are measured. In the case of this bottle, that yardstick is working well: the palate is rich and creamy, there is maturity along with great fruit and elegance. Best as an apéritif wine, this could also go with light foods. Imported by Maisons Marques & Domaines USA. NV WineEnthusiast
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Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Poultry & Eggs Quail
Fruits & Nuts Fruit Salad
Vegetables Risotto, Vegetable, Fruit Salad
Fish or Shellfish Stews and Soups
Herbs & Spices Wasabi
Vegetables Leafy Greens

Awards and Accolades

  Name Vintage
Award Winner Top 100 Wines - 2007 Wine Enthusiast  

Wine Terms

Name Value
Champagne A region in France that makes wines from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes. It is also the name of the world’s most famous sparkling wine. Although many winemakers outside of Europe can legally call their sparkling wine champagne, European Union regulations prevent any other member country from doing so.
France France is the standard bearer for all the world’s wines, with regard to the types of grapes that are used to make wine and with the system of defining and regulating winemaking. Its Appellation d’Origine Controlee, or AOC system, is the legislative model for most other European countries. Most French wines are named after places. The system is hierarchical; generally the smaller and more specific the region for which a wine is named, the higher its rank. There are four possible ranks of French wine, and each is always stated on the label: Appellation Contrôlée (or AOC), Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure (or VDQS); Vin de pays, or country wine; and Vin de table. France has five major wine regions, although there are several others that make interesting wines. The three major regions for red wine are Bordeaux, Burgundy, and the Rhone; for white wines, the regions are Burgundy, the Loire and Alsace. Each region specialized in certain grape varieties for its wines, based on climate, soil, and local tradition. Two other significant French wine regions are Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon, both in the south of France. Cahors, in the southwest of the country, produces increasingly good wines.
Brut A French term meaning "crude" or "raw". Used widely for sparkling wines to indicate one that tastes bone dry. Particularly dry wines may also be labelled brut natur(e).
Sparkling Wine Sparkling wines are part of a growing category of bubbly wines.

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