Collection 246
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters on the half shell, pan-seared sea scallops, and roasted chicken with wild mushrooms.
✨ Technical Specifications
Louis Roederer's Collection series represents a visionary evolution of the traditional non-vintage Champagne, designed to embrace climate variations through a multi-vintage philosophy. Collection 246 marks the 246th blend in the history of the house, built upon the foundation of the 2021 harvest—a challenging yet rewarding growing season that yielded remarkable freshness. The blend is composed of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier, sourced from estate-owned plots and partner vineyards. To achieve its signature depth and complexity, the assembly incorporates a significant proportion of Perpetual Reserve wines started in 2012, alongside reserve wines matured in oak tuns. This meticulous combination of young fruit, aged reserve stocks, and oak influence creates a Champagne of exceptional tension, salinity, and multi-layered richness.
🍾 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