Personalised Louis Roederer Vintage RosT 2017 Graphic Gift Boxed 12% 750ml

Personalised Louis Roederer Vintage Rosé 2017 Graphic Gift Boxed 12% 750ml

Tasting Notes

Appearance
Lovely pink hue with light copper tints. Steady flow of fine bubbles.

Aroma
An immediate bouquet of forest fruit (wild strawberries and raspberries) and citrus (blood orange) with some zesty and powdery petal-like notes (rose-flavoured macaroons). Upon aeration, the citrus fruit gives way to iodised and chocolate nuances with a few spicy and resinous (cedar) overtones.

Palate
The palate is caressingly soft, delicious, delicate and elegant. We have the sensation of a silky texture that softly evaporates to give way to a cloud of delicate and slightly spicy perfumes. The fruit is concentrated and almost liqueur-like on the mid-palate where it is energised by the fresh and iodised flavours. On the finish, the delectable chocolate nuances combine with the chalky freshness to create a lingering and pure impression of salinity.

Vinification
A rose created by a long, gentle infusion of Pinot noir that extracts its juicy ripeness while preserving its tremendous saline freshness. In this process, some Chardonnay juices are added to the Pinot Noir maceration, to ferment together and achieve the perfect integration of the two grape varieties.

Vintage notes
2017 was a year of living dangerously! An exceptionally warm and dry winter and spring, but the latter brought severe frosts from 1 7 to 29 April, setting the sorry record for 12 nights of frost. These were followed by a dull, wet and not particularly hot summer, which ended in an almost tropical (hot and humid) spell at the end of August. This sudden change led to a significant increase in grey rot on the ripening Pinot noir and Meunier grapes. The harvest was fast-paced and completed very quickly demanding very precise and methodical selection work of an unprecedented level even for Roederer.

Grape variety
60% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay