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Louis Roederer Hommage à Camille Coteaux Champenois
By Essi Avellan MW | April 12 2021
Photography by Emmanuel Allaire courtesy of Champagne Louis Roederer
The first Chardonnay and Pinot Noir releases from a promising project raises the bar for quality in the rapidly growing Coteaux de Champagne still-wine scene
In essence, this is a lab,” says Champagne Louis Roederer’s
chef de cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon of the house’s new Coteaux Champenois project. “With these still wines, we seek to express the terroirs and to see them without the bubbles.” The climate during the last few decades of the 20th century wasn’t favorable for still-wine making in Champagne, but climate change has opened up new possibilities. “We can pick earlier and riper, and the fruit can be perfectly clean. We wanted to explore these dimensions,” Lécaillon reasons regarding the decision to venture into the making of still wine.
Louis Roederer Hommage à Camille Coteaux Champenois
Essi Avellan MW tastes the first Chardonnay and Pinot Noir releases from a promising project that raises the bar for quality in the rapidly growing Coteaux de Champagne still-wine scene
In essence, this is a lab,” says Champagne Louis Roederer’s
chef de cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon of the house’s new Coteaux Champenois project. “With these still wines, we seek to express the terroirs and to see them without the bubbles.” The climate during the last few decades of the 20th century wasn’t favorable for still-wine making in Champagne, but climate change has opened up new possibilities. “We can pick earlier and riper, and the fruit can be perfectly clean. We wanted to explore these dimensions,” Lécaillon reasons regarding the decision to venture into the making of still wine.
The Drinks Business
19 February 2021 By Lucy Shaw
Champagne house Louis Roederer has released a duo of single vineyard still wines from the region under the Coteaux Champenois appellation.
Camille Volibarts 2018 is made from Chardonnay from Les Mesnil-Sur-Oger
Named ‘Hommage à Camille’, after Camille Olry-Roederer, who ran Louis Roederer upon her second husband’s death in 1932 until 1975, the still wine range includes a Pinot Noir and a Chardonnay.
Forward thinking in her approach, Olry-Roederer helped to modernise Louis Roederer and successfully steer it through the mid-20
th century.
She had a habit of surprising her guests at dinner with still wines from some of the house’s top vineyard plots.
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