The 2005 Cristal is a legend in the making, but this wine is still very young and closed
and some extended bottle age will be necessary to really allow all of the multi-faceted elements
here to blossom and come to the...
The 2005 Cristal is a legend in the making, but this wine is still very young and closed
and some extended bottle age will be necessary to really allow all of the multi-faceted elements
here to blossom and come to the fore. The cépages is the same as the 2006, fifty-five percent
pinot noir and forty-five percent chardonnay, but this does not mean that Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon
selected vins clairs from the same crus for the two vintages! The 2005 Cristal offers up a deep,
extremely primary and very promising bouquet of apple, pear, a gorgeously complex base of
chalky soil tones, incipient nuttiness, citrus peel, smoke, a touch of lavender and a topnote of
peach blossoms. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and absolutely rock solid at the core,
with great focus and finesse, very refined mousse, a crisp girdle of acidity and great length and
laser-like focus on the poised, primary and utterly refined finish. The 2005 is an utterly brilliant
Cristal in the making, but give it time to blossom in the cellar! 2019-2060.