Brendan Baker

9.4

White flowers, brioche, caramel, toasted hazelnuts, fine bead, vinous and long ✨ — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is a bit more broad and less focused, smokey and brioche and yeast and bread, so fine and very dry and mineral, also the earthiest one. So pure and so sappy. Clean and fresh. Not too complex but so well made and fine mousse, juicy and invigorating and sapid and lots of fruit skins. Classic and champagne for parties. — a year ago

Matt Perlman

9.3

Creamy texture, gold color, cutting acidity, candied lemon, crushed stone, cheese rind, impressive — 2 years ago

Alexandre Pagliano

9.1

Very rich and complex nose followed by a complex, long, but somewhat oxidized palate. Its really good but we would have preferred a fresher and more classical approach. We have other bottles and will keep track. — 3 years ago

with Adriana

Jay Kline

9.5

Popped and poured; enjoyed as a preamble to my birthday dinner. The “La Pucelle” pours a straw color with medium viscosity and a persistent mousse. On the nose, the wine is developing with powerful notes of yellow apple, Bosc pear, raspberry, white peach, brioche some chanterelle mushrooms and a mix of chalky and limestone minerals. On the palate, the wine is dry with high acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is forever. Zippy. Divine. A “wow” Champagne that seems to straddle the freshness of the reductive approach and the complexity of the oxidative approach.

Always 100% Pinot Noir, this release of “La Pucelle” is a deft blend of the 2014 and 2012 vintages; 32/68 respectively. Disgorged 2015. Though this is NV, expect a long life. My only regret is drinking this so quickly because this has a bigger story to tell. But I was sharing with 9 other people and holy smokes, it’s already the belle of the ball. Thank you @Lyle Fass for the assist! — 7 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Lovely, gorgeous and bready. Brioche. Really elegant and fine. Great beads and mousse. — a year ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.4

Every good home should have a few…

…yeasty buttered popcorn nose, lovely fragrance, more buttery richness on the palate tempered by acid & minerality. Lovely. — 3 years ago

with Alsu

Shay A

9.2

@Delectable Wine : This is the Emilien Allouchery La Scéne champagne. I didn’t see it in the database.

New producer I’ve started hearing about, and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to opening the BdN later.

80% fermentation in oak barrels, 20% in amphora. Disgorged May ‘23. 1 g/l dosage. 100% Chardonnay.

Bright, crisp and texturally really pretty. Classically grower champagne in style with the fruit center stage…borders on tropical (in a good way)…white peach, lemon zest, sea spray aromatics. IMO, a great example of where even 1gram dosage can help balance and lengthen out a champagne of this profile. Curious if the use of amphora adds to the mid-palate texture here? After an hour, little bit of sweet toast started to poke out, but it was second fiddle to the fruit. Balanced use of oak frames this well. Finish of chalk/limestone, sea salt, lemon confit, honeyed apple crisps. Worth seeking out. — 8 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Huge bready and yeasty nose, wow so expressive, green apple skins and so so expansive. Just a super intense nose. Spice and smoke and chardonnay stankiness. Mineral, so complex. Ethereal and so complex. Palate is super complex and juicy with such a fine mousse. So sappy and pure and wonderful silken texture and so much grip and salinity. Finish is so so long. Never ends. So fine and refined. Vinous quality. Amazing persistence and sapidity. Wow this reminds me of Batard-Montrachet with bubbles. So much grip. So fine. 9.7 sand and clay soils for this. — a year ago

Kevin Mullally

8.9

Like not love. Cherry/cranberry. Earthy - almost mushroom. — 2 years ago