Wine Spectator 91 points - Light and lively, featuring apple, toast, ginger and light vanilla flavors. Balanced and on the dry side, with a creamy texture and a lingering butter pastry aftertaste. Drink now through 2011. 42,000 cases imported. –BS
The #95 in Wine Spectator’s 2009 Top 100 (Nov 30 2009)
Top 100 WS 100 points - The NV Brut Premier is a pretty, perfumed offering redolent of pears, greens apples and flowers. This medium-bodied, refined NV Champagne offers excellent length and a crisp, refreshing finish with notes of sweetness that linger on the close. The Brut Premier is unique among the estate’s wines in that it contains 20% Pinot Meunier in addition to the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Roughly 30-40% of this wine undergoes malolactic fermentation. This is Lot: L 030946A104787, disgorged February 26th 2008. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2010. (Dec 2008)
Champagne Louis Roederer, creator of the famous Cristal prestige cuvée, has been synonymous with the world’s
great champagnes since 1776. Brut Premier is the House’s flagship multi-vintage champagne—its most popular and
best-selling wine and the champagne that sets the house style for this esteemed producer.
