This is a very tasty Grand Cru Champagne.
Medium plus in body with medium plus acidity and medium plus size bubbles.
Dry on the palate and complex.
Showing limes, lemons, brioche, yeast, minerals, and green apples.
Easy drinking and good by itself or with food.
A nice sipping wine that will pair nicely with seafood.
Disgorged in 2017.
12.5% alcohol by volume.
90 points.
$70. — 20 days ago
A mind blowing noise. Gorgeous plush fruit. Plum and exotic blue fruit. Complex and seductive. Beautiful balance on the palate. Great tension with a bit of salt and a lovely long luscious finish. Pretty and intense. — 18 days ago
Ample black currant aromas overflowing from my glass. Oak. Roses. Spices. Black berry. Still fresh, but rounded. Balanced sweetness and spiciness. 2 hours, tropical fruits? Melted tannic, so smooth. With bitterness is also impacted. Vanilla, oak. Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Paul Hobbs Wines 18 @14960, Toscan, 240914 — 15 days ago
2019 vintage. Another fine effort from Villemaurine. This was still made under the Justin Onclin reign, since 2021 Villemaurine is owned by the Lefevere family. — 12 days ago
Opaque red blue. Vegetal and floral aromas with muddled blueberry. Medium plus bodied, medium plus alcohol. Blueberry emerges more prominently on the palate. Unbelievably smooth, round and well integrated. So complete. Tannins are perfect here, just enough to cut the beef tallow and provide an enjoyable finish. I can only imagine this will get even better, but why wait. This is near the top of my historical scale.
94+ points — 15 days ago
Bright ruby garnet with quite narrow garnet rim . Quite closed at first with mineral , cassis , sous bois , cigar box , touch of smoke . On the palate very intense with lots of cigar box tinged cassis , blackberry , cedar , coffee. Gritty but integrated tannins , fresh acidity . Very long and complex on the finish . This is still young but is starting to show what it can do , perfectly balanced and enormously long . Precise and for Las Cases very elegant . Now and for the next 10-15 years . — 24 days ago
GaryWEdwards
It is rare that such a youthful Saint-Emilion Grand Crú would be so approachable if not robust . This is a remarkable value that I bought en primeur 2018 and is a wow value. — 7 days ago