Louis Roederer Brut Premier NV Saturday, Sep 30 2006
Tasting Notes and France and Champagne and Variety and Sparkling
A lovely fine bead with light gold in a bright wine. The nose had fresh bread/yeast plus a citrus edge. The palate shows wonderful balance with nice biscuit and chardonnay flavours boosted with a little berry like richness. The dosage is not noticed but I suspect was more than 8g/litre. After much recent discussion over dosage and a Roderer I have sent a bit more off to the lab to get a more precise figure. Overall impression is of a great Champagne, crisp acid and nice finish. I should have a glass now as I type this whilst watching a bit of the footy but I’d probably ping me tractor when I get back to work at three quarter time. Tempting.
Tasted : Sep06
Alcohol : 12.5%
Price : $72
Closure : Cork
Drink : 2006 - 2007
Source : Foodworks IGA Red Hill
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6 Responses to “Louis Roederer Brut Premier NV”
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 pm
I much preferred this to the Blanc de Blanc vintage at the tasting.
However, those Charlies certainly wooed me. I think the next bottle* of nv I buy will be a Chucky H…
*unless Gary Walsh is present and I have a chance to annoy him with some more low-dosage, non-commercial, dirty soda water.
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Go for it Jules.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Lab results back and the NV Brut Premier that is not noticably sweet has 12g/L of residual sugar. All I need now is a 20ml sample of the Blanc de Blanc to see how accurate our palates are.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:33 am
Had a bottle of this last night at the beggining of a dinner. Top NV at reasonable restaurant price!
Must drink more of it.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:00 am
Had this on thursday night as a starter before a pretty all-star aussie line up (96 Thomas Hardy, 04 Marquis Phillips S9, 03 Majella Mallea, 74 Seppelt Vintage Port and 96 Penfolds Kalimna Block 42!)
But this sparkles was very hard to fault and the bottle was consumed very quickly. Lemon Curd and fine bead, toasty and thoroughly delicious!
February 8th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Had the Louis NV tonight with dinner!!! Had a beautiful bead but will agree that the residual sugar was abit high to consume in excess.
Must say that I am not really a champagne drinker but this soft, smooth ‘less is more’ style of champagne is really turning me!!!