2014 Louis Roederer Brut Vintage Champagne
95 Points - Robert Parker's WA:
“Roederer's 2014 Brut Vintage is beautiful, offering up aromas of pear, mirabelle plum, red berries, warm biscuits and smoke. Full-bodied, layered and elegantly muscular, it's seamless and complete, with terrific mid-palate depth and amplitude. Framed by bright acids and enlivened by a pinpoint mousse, it concludes with a penetrating finish. The blend is 70% Pinot Noir, emphasizing Verzy, and pressure is a touch higher than in its more ethereal Blanc de Blancs counterpart. As I wrote of its 2013 predecessor, this is a wine that puts many prestige cuvées to shame.” —William Kelley (September 23, 2021)
94 Points - Wine & Spirits:
"Sweet gingery freshness drives this wine, its structure focused on mineral acidities and limestone savor, complex and nuanced when first poured, it’s a wine that would take to decanting, as it keeps developing over the course of several days, delivering the clarity and pale beauty of fruit grown in Champagne’s chalk and clay soils." (12/21)
94 Points - The Somm Journal:
"The vintage may have been marked by “clear, sharp contrasts,” to quote the tech sheet, but the straw-hued result is not: Rather, the blend of 71% Pinot Noir and 29% Chardonnay is soft, smooth, and rich, showing bruised-peach aromas with undertones of nuts and honey before nectarine and lemon chiffon settle on the palate with a dash of nutmeg."
93 Points - Wine Spectator:
"A crisp and well-cut Champagne, delivering a strong mineral presence. There's a chalky underpinning to the tightly-meshed flavors of crunchy pear, raspberry, pickled ginger and pink grapefruit zest. Fine and lightly creamy in texture, with a mouthwatering finish that echoes the minerality. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Best from 2022 through 2030.” —AN (Nov 2021)
