Roederer Estate L'Ermitage 1996
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COMMENTARY: Wow! The 1996 L'Ermitage has come along for the ride and is taking us with it to experience its glory. We are the benefactors. Today was the wine's day to shine, and it sure did. TASTING NOTES: This wine is deep and dramatic with alluring dried peach, earth, mushroom, and core fruits. Its outstanding development over time reminds of the high quality of L'Ermitage. Enjoy it with Coq Au Vin. (Tasted: April 4, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 1996 L'Ermitage Brut, disgorged in February of 2000, opens with tangy notes of Greek yogurt and clotted cream over baked peaches and apples with accents of coffee, hazelnuts, smoke and graphite coming through with time. The palate is full-bodied and mature in character but has surprising freshness and energy to lift its toasty layers. It has a light framing of creamy mousse and very long, layered finish, a mature style that maintains a balanced richness.
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Founded in 1982, Roederer Estate is nestled in Mendocino County’s fog-shrouded, Anderson Valley. As the California property of Champagne Louis Roederer, Roederer Estate builds upon a centuries-old tradition of fine winemaking. Roederer's unique winemaking style is based on two elements: complete ownership of its vineyards and the addition of oak-aged reserve wines to each year's blend or cuvee to create complex, dry and harmonious sparkling wines.
The crisp, fresh and rich flavors of Roederer Estate sparkling wines reflect the cool Anderson Valley that is home to their family-owned estate's 600 acres of vineyards. This protected valley in Northern California provides the ideal ripening conditions for their 100% estate-grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes. The blending team is comprised of the winemakers from the California property as well as from Champagne Louis Roederer, ensuring that Roederer Estate remains the most French of the California sparklers.