Louis Roederer Millesimes Rosé Champagne

This cool and damp year unexpectedly generated the earliest harvest in the history of our House. A vintage of inverted seasons: a rather mild and dry winter developed into a summer-style climate for the entire spring. Summer began extremely cool and wet, with autumnal conditions continuing until the end of August. The weather improved at the end of the month with a return to summer temperatures by late August and throughout the month of September. The ripening process was spectacularly - and unexpectedly - energetic for such mediocre weather conditions. 2011 was a vintage of patience and careful selection during the picking. Similarly to 2010, only a few south-facing plots and vines with very few grapes reached satisfactory ripeness.