Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. The 2012 vintage of Louis Roederer Cristal has been released! OK, I realize that almost no one uses an exclamation point ...

Then there is Cristal. This is the world-renowned Louis Roederer Cristal from Champagne Louis Roederer in Reims, but that one word - Cristal - sets this wine apart. Initially produced for a ...

Champagne Louis Roederer may not be as familiar a name to lovers of prestige bubbles as Cristal—its signature sparkler. But Louis Roederer has been one of region’s venerable producers since ...

Champagne Louis Roederer, the maker of Cristal, won a trademark infringement case against J. Garcia Carrion SA over the labeling of sparkling wine. Roederer began making Cristal champagne after ...

Louis Roederer has released its top-tier Champagne, the 2013 Cristal vintage. By Florence Fabricant Graduation, Father’s Day, a wedding, all occasions that warrant raising a glass of bubbly.

Cristal is the iconic $300 Champagne knocked back by hip-hop moguls and Hollywood royalty (often straight from the bottle in Cadillac Escalades and hot tubs). The full name is Louis Roederer ...

In the 1870s, Louis Roederer's Cristal Champagne, then bottled in actual crystal, became a favorite of Russian Czar Alexander II. When Champagne makers have that kind of history, it's not easy to ...

Only in this telling of the tale the big guy has all the rocks. Louis Roederer makes Cristal, a $300 bottle of Champagne that graces the ice buckets of the rich and famous. Landmass Wines is the ...

Louis Roederer was founded in 1776 and is still family-owned, according to its Web site. Cristal was created in 1876 exclusively for Tsar Alexander II. Roederer stopped making the champagne after ...

Louis Roederer Cristal has responded to a massive boycott over statements made about various rappers’ patronage of the pricey drink. In a special Summer 2006 article titled "Bubbles & Bling" in ...