2000 Louis Roederer, Cristal, Magnum (1.5L)

RP95 "From a difficult vintage with destructive hailstorms and botrytis, the 2000 Cristal opens with an elegant and delicate bouquet with brioche, ripe apple, green olive and iodine aromas. Complex and very salty, with oyster and umami flavors, this is a generous and very long Cristal that is excellent with Japanese food, such as sashimi for example, as chef de cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon said during the tasting in New York in November 2018." SR for TWA Nov 2018

AG95 "The 2000 Cristal is gorgeous. Open-knit, creamy and totally seductive, the 2000 is a charmer. There are no hard edges or angular contours in this supple, open-knit Champagne. A gentle touch of reduction lingers on the close. The 2000 is an absolute delight today. “It was a very wet, stormy year with slow ripeness,” Lécaillon explains. “It was the most difficult Cristal I had blended up until that time, as the wines kept changing prior to blending.” Dosage was 10 grams per liter." AG for VM Dec 2023