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Roederer Estate

Sub-AVA · Anderson Valley

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Editorial profile

Roederer Estate is the Anderson Valley sparkling wine house founded in 1982 by Jean-Claude Rouzaud of Champagne Louis Roederer, who sought a cool-climate American site suited to méthode traditionnelle production. The estate farms its own 620 acres and sources no purchased fruit, and its wines are built on the Champagne pairing of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, hand-riddled and aged on the lees before disgorgement.

The non-vintage Brut, introduced in 1988, anchors the range alongside Brut Rosé and Extra Dry; single-vineyard Apple Alley and Clark Road bottlings and a still Pinot Noir sit above it, and L'Ermitage Brut and L'Ermitage Brut Rosé, the estate's prestige cuvées, sit at the top. In its 40-plus years the winery has had only two winemakers, both French: founding winemaker Michel Salgues, succeeded by Arnaud Weyrich in 2002.

620

estate acres

as stated by the producer

Winemaker
Arnaud Weyrich

Facts read from roedererestate.com

What's on file

1982

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

4501 HIGHWAY 128

Where it's registered

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  • Principal4501 HIGHWAY 128, PHILO

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Anderson Valley

5.9

pH, 1:1 water

16.5cm

, whole profile

119cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 56 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

5.9
5.2%
20.4%
available water
16.5cm
depth to restriction
119cm

Dominant

  • 38.1%
  • 11.8%
  • 7.1%
  • 6.7%
  • 6.5%

56 map units · soil described over 100.0% of the region’s area · 1.0% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 81% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

9 of 9 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.