🍾 Louis Roederer Brut Premier

Louis Roederer Brut Premier is a non-vintage white Champagne in the Brut style from the house Louis Roederer in Reims.

According to the house, it is a multi-vintage blend created by Léon Olry Roederer after the First World War so that the taste stays consistent whatever the harvest year. The house gives the blend as around 40 % Pinot Noir, 40 % Chardonnay and 20 % Pinot Meunier; the wine is aged 3 years in the house's cellars and left at least 6 months after disgorgement.

The house Louis Roederer is an independent family house in Reims; it created the prestige cuvée Cristal in 1876.

The boundaries of the Champagne area were set by a law of 6 May 1919: parts of the Marne, Aube, Aisne, Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne departments. The designation’s specification allows seven grape varieties, dominated by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; grapes are picked as whole bunches, that is by hand, and the yield is limited to 10,400 kg per hectare.

According to the Comité Champagne, Champagne is served chilled to 8–10 °C, and bottles are kept in the dark at a steady 10–15 °C, without vibration. An opened bottle is best closed with a sparkling-wine stopper and kept cold.

It is sold under the protected designation of origin Champagne: the bubbles come only from a second fermentation in the bottle, and the wine is aged for at least 15 months before sale (36 for vintage). Brut on the label is an EU sugar term: less than 12 g of sugar per litre.

Why it matters to you. No year on the label means it is not a vintage wine: the house may blend wines from different harvests. The WHO reminds: there is no safe level of alcohol.