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Tyson Stelzer’s Top Ten Champagnes of 2019

Louis Roederer Cristal Rosé

 

In any pursuit, it is only the most daring and courageous who succeed at the very highest level, only the trailblazers who risk everything and take the biggest gambles who define new horizons. Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon’s unique ‘infusion’ technique of rosé creation has everything to lose and everything to win and never has he won like he did in 2008. The desperate, beguiling purity of the superlative 2008 season attains a breathtaking pinnacle in Cristal Rosé. This is, singly and unequivocally, the greatest champagne that has landed since the thundering Clos du Mesnil 2002. And it just might be the greatest rosé I have ever tasted.

100 points

Krug Clos du Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut 2004

Clos du Mesnil is again one of the most dramatic, phenomenal, stupendous sparkling releases of the year. The exacting precision of 2004 unites with the commanding presence of Le Mesnil in a sensational statement of sheer, coiled power. It rises with an ethereal flourish on the finish, expanding in line and length, spiralling upwards in slow motion to larger-than-life proportions. The 2004 vintage possesses an inherent generosity and calm that make it more approachable on release than the 2002, making this the vintage to drink over the coming decades until the 2002 finally, one day, comes into its glorious own.

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