2016 Cristal Brut Louis Roederer Spirituosen This wine is a rather

This wine is a rather strong

the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Haut-Brion is reticent to begin

but a firm backbone of acidity keeps this fresh and focused throughout

but it delivers a lush mouthful of ripe raspberries and vanilla that glides to a lingering

with increasing tannins in the long finish

2016 Cristal Brut Louis Roederer Spirituosen This wine is a ratherParker Kelley 99 points: A candidate for wine of the vintage honors in Champagne, Roederer's 2013 Cristal Ros is showing brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with notes of crisp orchard fruit, white flowers, red berries, stone fruit, freshly baked bread and tangerine oil. Full bodied, layered and multidimensional, the vintage's bright girdling acids are amply cloaked in exuberant, expressive and particularly concentrated fruit; so while this Cristal is