Champagne Roederer Brut Nature Zero Dosage Cuvée Starck 2009

Brut Nature 2009 is first and foremost a wine, and then a champagne. It is impulsive and bright with a pleasant bitterness on the attack, delicate beads of mousse and a long, lingering finish.

95 Points “Musky and muscular, this wine starts out with unforgiving acidity, yielding to the fruit as the structure mellows with air. It’s a Champagne to decant or, if you’re opposed to losing bubbles, to stopper and revisit as it develops. The wine’s austerity fills out in notes of almond and honeysuckle, salt and citrus. This is a collaboration between Roederer and French designer Philippe Starck, a blend of pinot noir, meunier and chardonnay grown in the clay soils of Cumières, harvested and fermented together. It’s a wine that requires a sunny vintage, as it’s produced without malolactic and without dosage.”