A Rosé That Waited Twenty Years
Vinothèque is Cristal with time added — held nearly twenty more years in Roederer's own cellars, disgorged in 2016. Rose petals and red berries deepening into chalk, hazelnut and praline: a rosé precisely at its peak.
Vintage 1999
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Two Signatures on One Label
Two profiles face each other on the label and two signatures sit beneath them. In 1999 the wine was still being made jointly by Tim Mondavi and Patrick Léon, a cool late season on both their terms.
One of Twelve Hundred Magnums
The neck label says magnum number 12,989, one of twelve hundred. Twenty-one years on, the 1999 Napa Valley bottling was still holding the cool, European shape that vintage is remembered for.
The Estate Vineyard, Named Out Loud
The home vineyard behind Clos du Val's Stags Leap Cabernet, bottled under its own name in a cool vintage that turned hot at the last moment. Twenty-one years on, the acidity was still the load-bearing element.
A Patient Year, Twenty-One Years On
A Yountville vineyard that fed Beringer's Private Reserve before it was ever bottled under its own name, from the cool middle year of three cool years. At twenty-one, the acidity was still holding the wine up.