Collection 244
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted chicken with wild mushrooms, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Louis Roederer's Collection 244 represents a brilliant evolution in the historic house's approach to multi-vintage Champagne. Designed to embrace the effects of climate change rather than fight them, the 'Collection' series replaces the traditional Brut Premier, with each edition numbered to represent the blend iteration since the house's founding in 1776. Collection 244 is anchored by the warm, concentrated 2019 harvest, balanced by a significant proportion of Roederer's 'Perpetual Reserve' (established in 2012) and oak-aged reserve wines. This masterful blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier showcases the diverse terroirs of the Marne Valley, Montagne de Reims, and Côte des Blancs. The result is a Champagne of immense depth, marrying vibrant citrus and stone fruit notes with toasted brioche, almonds, and a signature saline minerality derived from the region's ancient chalk soils.
🍾 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