Description
VINTAGE 2017 was a year of living dangerously! An exceptionally warm and dry winter and spring, but the latter brought severe frosts from 17 to 29 April, setting the sorry record for 12 nights of frost. These were followed by a dull, wet and not particularly hot summer, which ended in an almost tropical (hot and humid) spell at the end of August. This sudden change led to a significant increase in grey rot on the ripening Pinot noir and Meunier grapes. The harvest was fast-paced and completed very quickly demanding very precise and methodical selection work of an unprecedented level even for Roederer
ORIGIN: Our “la Rivière” Estate CRUS: Cumières, Chouilly
GRAPE VARIETIES: 60% Pinot noir 40% Chardonnay WINE IN OAK: 29%
MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION: 24% DOSAGE: 8g/l
HARVEST: From 31 August to 9 September 2017 A rosé created by a long, gentle infusion of Pinot noir that extracts its juicy ripeness while preserving its tremendous saline freshness. In this process, some Chardonnay juices are added to the Pinot noir maceration, to ferment together and achieve the perfect integration of the two grape varieties.
