Collection 241
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted poultry with a light cream sauce, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Louis Roederer's Collection 241 represents a historic evolution in the house's non-vintage philosophy, designed to embrace climate complexity rather than fight it. Marking the 241st blend since the house's founding in 1776, this cuvée is anchored by the 2016 harvest, integrated with a 'Perpetual Reserve' started in 2012 and oak-aged reserve wines. The blend typically consists of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier sourced from prime Champagne crus. By utilizing large oak foudres for aging its reserve wines, Roederer imparts a signature texture, richness, and vinous complexity, resulting in a Champagne that beautifully balances fresh saline minerality with deep, toasted brioche and ripe stone fruit notes.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in Reims in 1776 and renamed upon Louis Roederer’s succession in 1833, Champagne Louis Roederer stands as one of the region’s preeminent independent, family-owned Grandes Marques. Spanning 250 hectares predominantly situated within Grands and Premiers Crus across the Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, and Côte des Blancs, the estate prioritizes exceptional estate-owned viticulture. Under Chief Executive Frédéric Rouzaud and long-tenured Chef de Cave Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, the house has pioneered large-scale viticultural regenerative transitions, with vast holdings certified organic and farmed biodynamically. The winemaking style combines parcel-by-parcel vinification, judicious large-oak maturation, and blocked malolactic fermentation to preserve chalk-driven tension, textural depth, and crystalline purity. Louis Roederer is internationally renowned for creating Cristal—the iconic prestige cuvée developed in 1876 for Tsar Alexander II—alongside Cristal Rosé, vintage-dated parcel expressions, and the dynamic multi-vintage Collection series based on a perpetual reserve system.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier