Champagne Cuvée Royale Brut Millesime 1996

Joseph Perrier (France)

Pinot Nero (45%), Chardonnay (50%), Pinot Meunier (5%)
Sparkling Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This Champagne shows a brilliant golden yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent, good effervescence, fine and persistent perlage. The nose reveals good personality with intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of praline, baked cake and ripe banana followed by aromas of pineapple, honey, hawthorn, yeast, apple, hazelnut, pear and plum. In the mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp and effervescent attack, however well balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable roundness. The finish is persistent with flavors of ripe banana, grapefruit and honey. A well made Champagne aged in bottle on its lees for at least 5 years.
Alcohol: 12%
Roasted fish, White roasted meat, Stewed fish, Broiled crustaceans
Suggested glass	11 °C (51 °F)
(Mature and Vintage Classic Method Sparkling Wines)
Issue 25, December 2004