Hommage a Camille Blanc 2018 Louis Roederer

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Jancis Robinson (16.50)

1 April 2021 The wine, in a bottle that is perhaps 75% full, is absolutely unchanged.
23 March 2021 Full bottle 1,550 g – too much! I suppose they are used to heavy bottles in Champagne. Named after the dynamic great grandmother of Frédéric Rouzaud, current head of Louis Roederer. Camille Olry-Roederer took over the reins at Louis Roederer on the death of her husband, Léon Olry-Roederer, in 1932 and remained at the helm until 1975. She was yet another of the hugely effective and vivacious Champagne widows and liked nothing better than to treat favoured dinner guests with still wines based on some of the house's best vineyards. This wine carries Le Mesnil-sur-Oger on the front label and only 2,880 bottles were made from this 0.55-ha vineyard, the Volibarts lieu-dit.
Extremely mineral nose immediately reminds me of Chablis. Very vivacious but rather uncompromising. No oaky sop to the palate but rather, as I suspect is intended, an expression of vineyard. Bone dry and with real texture in the mouth. Yes, Chablis is the closest thing, with some of a dry Riesling's steeliness, but this is very much its own beast and, I should imagine, will age in an interesting fashion. Difficult to know how long for, though, without a track record.