{"id":19303,"date":"2017-12-19T02:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T02:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=19303"},"modified":"2017-12-19T02:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T02:34:03","slug":"champagne-louis-roederer-cristal-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/champagne-louis-roederer-cristal-2006","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/roederercristalchampagne1-500x298.jpg\" alt=\"roederercristalchampagne\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/roederercristalchampagne1-500x298.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/roederercristalchampagne1-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/roederercristalchampagne1-400x238.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/roederercristalchampagne1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so nice when legends live up to expectations. I had six bottles of this, as payment for judging the Roederer awards a few years ago. But my teenage kids broke into a locked wine cupboard and had necked four bottles with their friends before I discovered the loss! So just two bottles left, and my last night in the UK for a while seemed a good excuse to open one, with my recent birthday another excuse. It&#8217;s a really lovely wine, and will age beautifully in bottle over the next decade, or perhaps even longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal 2006 France<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is just beginning to show what it&#8217;s capable of. Fresh, linear and citrussy with some fine toasty, nutty notes. There&#8217;s lovely fruit expression here with a lovely crystalline citrus fruit character and subtle hints of almond and marzipan, as well as some salty notes. Has a real drive to it and should age beautifully. Rich and vinous but fresh at the same time. Fine waxy, bready notes on the finish. 95\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so nice when legends live up to expectations. I had six bottles of this, as payment for judging the Roederer awards a few years ago. But my teenage kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-19303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","tag-champagne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19307,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions\/19307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}