Pommery

Cuvée Louise, Rosé, 1999

Name: Cuvée Louise, Rosé
Brand: Pommery
Price: 1099.14 GBP

88/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

92/100

Vinous

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all 1999

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Last Few
1999
75cl
DP
£133.18

Broking

1999
6x75cl
DP
£1,099.14
1999
6x75cl
DP
£1,099.14

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The Cuvée Louise Rosé Vintage 1999 is made from the vineyards of Avize, Cramant and Ay, three of Champagne’s greatest winegrowing areas, with the addition of some extremely fine red wine from Bouzy. Its colour is a pale pink with a slightly salmon hue. This simply effervesces with characterful, vibrant fruit. Strong mineral, citrusy flavours with overwhelming suggestions of crushed creamy strawberry fruit, through to a tense, lifting finish. A very rare champagne.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

92/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Light, bright gold with a delicate bead. Complex aromas of brioche, lemon rind, pear and yellow rose, with suave lees and honey undertones. Fleshy and broad, with gentle acidity reining in sweet orchard fruit and citrus flavors. The toasty note returns on the long, sappy, intriguingly smoky finish. Drinkable now as there's plenty going on, but this will repay patience.

date of review 11/2009

88/100

Antonio Galloni,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 1999 Brut Rose Cuvee Louise is also rather light in color, but here the wines candied, super-ripe notes play a more central role in its balance. The 1999 is made in a more overt, fruit-driven style that shows quite a bit of richness but lacks the sheer verve of the 2000. Ultimately the 1999 comes across as heavy and excessively sweet. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2013. This large, venerable estate makes a wide range of wines, the best of which is the Cuvee Louise. The estate does not disclose disgorgement dates, but in general the wines receive six to nine months on the cork prior to be being released. Importer: Vranken Pommery America, New York, NY; tel. (212) 921-1215

drinking window 2008 - 2013

date of review 12/2008

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Chardonnay/Pinot Noir

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12%

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.