Well well! For anyone interested in drinking wine, it is always nice to drink something interesting.
Quartet, which is what in Europe is the same cuvee as in the USA, Roederer Estate became my companion on one evening. I have known this wine for a few years. I drank it a few times as a good alternative, in fact a cheaper one, to a decent Champagne; for your information, this 'excuse' developed around 2008 when I finally managed to lay my hands on my first bottle and drank it.
Since then, I had had it a few times and somehow, quiet possible for drinking just Champagne, this fizz, outside of our glamorous patch, definitely impressed my palette and encouraged me to write about it.
Quartet (EU), Roederer Estate (USA) is a Chardonnay dominated blend from California, had indeed, redefined the concept of a new world fizz.
At first the wine has a wonderfully lively nose of citrus. Though, that is, what I remember it to be; today's bottle, however, seems a little more aged.
Slight buttery notes with a hint of toasted hazelnuts and dried apricots, green and red apples where you think that only cinnamon is missing to complete a complete strudel taste leaves one wondering. The outstanding balance in respect of the taste is a testament to the excellence of blending skills from Louis Roederer.
That is however, at best, unsurprising; their skill to deliver on excellence is imbued in the name itself, but...
... what a fizz!
It didn't even need to come from Champagne!
Alone, but never lonely!
Drink, live and think Champagne.
hmmm, this wine shows a remarkable aging potential. The layers!!!!!
Peter
