From the Winery: The 2012 vintage gave us the very best material: juicy, concentrated grapes with unusual levels of maturity resulting in rich, full-bodied wines worthy of the greatest vintages in Champagne. Brut Nature is a champagne without artifice, conceived as an exchange, forged by a long-standing friendship. This champagne is the personification of the free thinking that resulted from an encounter between Maison Louis Roederer and the creator Philippe Starck. In hot years, certain of Cumières’ cool clay vineyard plots, bathed in the summer heat, express their character with strength and freshness and always produce unique champagnes. Conceived as the natural extension of the clay terroir of the Cumières hillsides, this bold champagne brings us a pioneering vision of wine. 2012 is a solar, intense and generous year, that gave us high quality with grapes of remarkable strength and character, and even more vibrant and generous Pinot Noirs. This year has therefore shown itself to be one of the greatest in history and has given us two wines, a white and a rosé. In 2012, Brut Nature gives us two versions of the same terroir, two very clean and pure, contrasting yet complementary, visions: one reaching out towards the sky and the year’s generous sun which shone over the slope, the other extending towards the bedrock of clay, this dense earth that forged Pinot Noirs of remarkable quality. It is an extremely bright, elegant and distinguished champagne of great vibration.

2012 was one of the most challenging and complicated years ever experienced in Champagne. However, difficult conditions often lead to great things…The low yields, due to the unpredictable weather, combined with continental conditions towards the end of the season, gave us unusual levels of maturity, resulting in rich, full-bodied and structured wines worthy of the greatest vintages in Champagne.

Golden yellow hue flecked with green. Delicate, compact, gentle bubbles. Intense aromas of juicy, ripe fruit such as vineyard peach and candied lemon combined with toasty notes and hazelnut. The ripeness of the fruit is revealed through the aromas of baked apples, tarte tatin, caramelized spices and a hint of fresh wood and benzoin. The attack is juicy and textural. The gentle, velvety smooth effervescence coats the palate before giving way to an intense, saline freshness. This delicious combination gives the wine a lovely intensity further enhanced by excellent freshness and a pleasant hint of bitterness. This intensity overrides the juicy, rounded body and gives way to a clean, direct and remarkably pure finish.

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