2016 Cristal Brut Louis Roederer Salwey lamb chops or even a

lamb chops or even a nice piece of game steak

The palate is light and the tannins are fine

“Champagne is always a battle between picking too early and rot

Galloni 95 points: Dark purple

Falstaff 92 points: Light yellow

2016 Cristal Brut Louis Roederer Salwey lamb chops or even aParker 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