Louis Roederer, Cristal 2002 750ML IconSake2026 The 2015 Couvent des Jacobins

The 2015 Couvent des Jacobins has a very opulent bouquet that fortunately appears to coalesce in the glass and eventually settles towards scents of boysenberry

textural and mouthfilling

An appealing amber colour

and minerality

Louis Roederer, Cristal 2002 750ML IconSake2026 The 2015 Couvent des JacobinsTasted from the original 2009 disgorgement, the 2002 Cristal is a broad, vinous wine, bursting with aromas of honeyed yellow orchard fruit, warm butter, brioche and fresh peaches. On the palate, it's full bodied, textural and mouthfilling, rendering the fine boned chalky structure and textural finesse that distinguish this quintessentially elegant style of this cuve in a broader shouldered, more enveloping register. The 2002 is beginning to enter its