Description
Light pink colour with a youthful, bluish hue and a steady stream of tiny bubbles. The nose is pure Pinot Noir: explosive, almost liqueur-like red berry fruit (Griotte cherries), on a deep bed of minerals with a chalky undertone. Aeration brings out toastier, nuttier notes characteristic of yeast autolysis. Dense, concentrated, multidimensional palate. Lush attack of red and black berries, intermingled with flowers and a zesty sprinkling of minerals; fabulously vibrant on mid-palate, with a solid core of fruit. Concentrated, dense, with near syrupy fruit balanced by an edgy, mineral acidity that makes for terrific length and purity… Great Pinot Noir is revealed here in all of its glorious duality! Built on lusciously ripe fruit from limestone soils, this Cristal Rosé 2005 is more than ever a perfect symbiosis of Champagne and the finest, most sumptuous Pinot Noir. Tenderness, intensity and power all rolled into one. Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon