Roederer Estate Brut - $21.99

Wine Details

Price: $21.99
Producer: Roederer Estate
Region: Anderson Valley
Varietal: Brut
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors: grapefruit, green apple, herb, lemon, pear
  • Award Winning
  • Sparkling Wine
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Product Description

  • The Roederer Estate Brut is crisp and elegant with complex pear, spice and hazelnut flavors. It is fresh and lightly fruity with great finesse and depth of flavor.

Expert Ratings

Ratings Vintage Source Flavors
WineSpectator - 90 Details: A delicious California sparkler with rich and toasty aromas up front, and a follow-up that features focused and complex lemon, grapefruit, herb, green apple and pear flavors. It's bright and clean on the finish, quite refreshing. Drink now through 2002. 67,000 cases made. – NV WineSpectator
WineSpectator - 89 Details: Toasty and well-focused, with juicy green apple, lemon grass and subtle spice tones carrying though an intense finish. Turns elegant and refined. Drink now through 2007. 65,000 cases made. –JL NV WineSpectator grapefruit, green apple, herb, lemon, pear
WineSpectator - 88 Details: Intense and concentrated, with rich pear, citrus, hazelnut and vanilla flavors that are focused and lively. Excellent value. Drink now through 2007. 65,000 cases made. –JL NV WineSpectator citrus, hazelnut, pear, vanilla
WineSpectator - 88 Details: Smooth, rich and creamy, with spicy pear, fig, melon and honeysuckle flavors that are fresh and lively, ending with a tasty burst of ripe fruit. Drink now. 65,000 cases made. –JL NV WineSpectator honeysuckle, melon, pear, ripe fruit, spicy
WineSpectator - 87 Details: A touch earthy and metallic before opening into purer cherry, vanilla and hazelnut flavors. Not as solid as past bottlings. Drink now through 2005. 65,000 cases made. –JL NV WineSpectator
WineSpectator - 87 Details: On the tart side, with concentrated citrus and lemony green pear and tart apple flavors, finishing with a clean, vibrant aftertaste. Drink now through 2007. 65,000 cases made. –JL NV WineSpectator cherry, earthy, hazelnut, vanilla
NV WineEnthusiast
NV WineEnthusiast almond, citrus, yeasty
WineEnthusiast - 88 Details: An elegant, pale-golden color leads to subtle but refined aromas of bread dough and lime, and a tantalizing hint of—what? Mint? Raspberry? White chocoloate? The same flavors commingle in the mouth. It’s very dry and acidic now. A year or so might soften it. NV WineEnthusiast
WineEnthusiast - 88 Details: Starts with wonderfully complex scents of dough, char, butterscotchy smoke, lemon chiffon pie and vanilla. The flavors are equally complex. Would score higher if not for a certain roughness of texture. NV WineEnthusiast lime
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Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Red Meat Beef
Vegetables Avocado
Fish or Shellfish Smoked Salmon

Awards and Accolades

  Name Vintage
Award Winner 100 Best Buys - 2008 - Wine & Spirits  

Wine Terms

Name Value
United States Wineries exist in all fifty states, but the most predominant (and best) wine comes from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington State, with New York gaining a foothold in the industry. American wines make up about 75% of all wine sales in the US. The appellation system uses the term AVA (American Viticultural Area) to determine where wines were produced, but grape varieties can be planted anywhere in the country. American wineries generally use varietal labeling, and government regulations require that the variety on the label must make up at least 75% of the blend (in Oregon it’s 90%). The words reserve, special selection, private reserve, classic, and so on have no legal definition in the US. Some wineries use these terms to indicate their better wines; others use the words as a marketing tool to move lower quality wines off the shelf.
Brut A French term meaning "crude" or "raw". Used widely for sparkling wines to indicate one that tastes bone dry. Particularly dry wines may also be labelled brut natur(e).
Sparkling Wine Sparkling wines are part of a growing category of bubbly wines.
California Sparkling While California sparkling wines are made in the Méthode Champenoise style, many wineries call their product "sparkling wine" and some even use the Champagne designation. Most sparkling wine producers are found in cooler climates and use the same grapes, primarily pinot noir and chardonnay with some pinot meunier as their cousins from France. The most popular designation is brut, a dry style that is usually a blend; blanc de blancs indicates a wine made solely from chardonnay while a blanc de noirs is made with either Pinot variety (or a blend thereof).
California California produces the majority of wine made in the United States. Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir dominate the wine production in California, but many other varietials thrive in the California climate. Many fine wines are produced in California using Mediterranean grapes.
Anderson Valley Anderson Valley is an AVA inside Mendocino County. Scouts for Louis Roederer of Champagne were searching California to find a place with weather as dismal as Roeder's home in north eastern France. The valley consists of a brushy area carved by the Navarro River that gains steady elevation as it moves inland. Sheep and apples were the prime agricultural focus in the area before vines were introduced to the area in the 1970's. A few promising Gewurztraminers have come from the valley, otherwise the main grapes of the hilly area are chardonnay and pinot noir. Besides single variety wines, the traditional method sparkling wines have been hailed as some of America's best to date.

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