extremely fine-grained tannins

and slightly drying wood tannins evident on the full-bodied palate and extending through the long finish

raspberry and gooseberry notes on the nose

orange and cucumber or with crisp mint leaves

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2014 Cristal Brut Rose Louis Roederer Obstbrand extremely fine-grained tanninsParker Kelley 99 points: A candidate for wine of the vintage honors in Champagne, Roederer's 2013 Cristal Ros is showing brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with notes of crisp orchard fruit, white flowers, red berries, stone fruit, freshly baked bread and tangerine oil. Full bodied, layered and multidimensional, the vintage's bright girdling acids are amply cloaked in exuberant, expressive and particularly concentrated fruit; so while this Cristal is