Mario Zillner

9.5

Base Assemblage: 2020 / Time on Lees: 36 mos / Disgorgement Date: July 2024 / Dosage: 1gr/L — a year ago

Brendan Baker

9.3

Red apple, stone fruit, lemon bar, brioche, fine bead ⚡️✨😋 — 3 years ago

Russ W

9.2

100% meunièr 40 months on lees. 1g/L. Coppery bubbs. — 4 years ago

with Krystal

Ian Hamel

9.4

2022/2/13 with tempura. LOT03 41 07. Dosage of 2g/l. This was a great bottle of maturing blanc de blancs - there was hazelnut and pistachio, salted caramel, tarte citron, and funky, earthy minerality. There was the sweet, crystalline fruit (without actually being sweet) and plenty of balancing acidity. I figure this could hold further but it’s beautiful right now. — 4 years ago

Jason Pace

8.9

D E L I C I O U S — 6 years ago

Fredybeans

8.9

Couleur or
Nez léger terpène et puissance chaleureuse
Bouche large avec du sucre residuel et un aspect plat et mou
L air l améliore que très peu — 7 years ago

with Pico and El

Fredybeans

9.0

Pourpre
Nez vanille mine de crayon fruit noir
Bouche épaisse suave avec une belle densité
Milieu de bouche charnu et ample
Finale gourmande avec des fruits à l eau de vie et des fruits noirs Toujours debout
— 8 years ago

Mario Zillner

9.4

Base Vintage: 2019 / Time on Lees: 48mos / Disgorgement: Jul-24 / Dosage: 1 gr per l / ABV/ 12.5% — a year ago

Ray Vanderhoff

9.1

Dark garnet (almost black) color. Deep aromas and flavors of black fruits with a distinct “green” note. Additional hints of freshly turned soil, baking spices and minerals. Smokey finish. Quite concentrated with abundant (but not overwhelming) tannins. Needs more bottle age but quite a nice foundation. Excellent QPR! — 3 years ago

Richard Alfred

9.2

At Auberge du Cep, Fleurie. With escargots and faux gilet de boeuf (R) and paté en croute and poitrine et cuisse de poulet avec vin rouge et champignons (L). Excellent. — 4 years ago

Tetsu Nakazawa

9.0

E’ molto buono. Anche non e’ gran cru oppure premia cru, abbiamo assagiato il gusto differente. L’ attaca e’ sofice e leggere, ma dopo il corpo abbastanza viene. E’ complicato di bere soltanto, e’ certo perfetto con pesce oppure cozze. — 5 years ago

Matt

9.7

Absolutely smashing! Captures everything I love about Champagne: terroir, freshness and purity, lees and autolytic notes with a dollop of post disgorgement bottle age. Perfect harmony of reductive, oxidative, and tertiary elements coming together. At its lower atmospheres this gained a gorgeous vinous feel too it which had me thinking Batard Montrachet at times. Tangerine marmalade, succulent and ripe asian pear, poached apple, pineapple, spring honey, toasted hazelnut, sweet cream, brown butter, chalk, orchard blossoms, salt, brioche. 100 CH, 5.5 g/l, 9 years on lees, 4/2014 disgorgement — 6 years ago

Fredybeans

9.4

Robe jaune claire
Nez réduit puis s ouvre lentement sur des note d agrumes confits d iode
Bouche à l attaque dense et pleine de sève et de fraîcheur
Vin très massif et carré qui en est qu à ses débuts — 7 years ago

with Pico and El

Fredybeans

8.9

Robe noire
Nez fermé dense terre humide et réglisse
Bouche dense profonde large aux tanins encore fermes
L air lui fait du bien mais manque de grâce actuellement — 8 years ago

with El

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

10

How can wine be this good? Transcendent is too weak a word to describe the glory that is this wine. Achingly beautiful. This is a “why we drink wine” type of wine. Needed an hour. So elegant and just the right amount of opulence. Magic is not the word but it’s the best I got. Thanks, Chris L. — 2 years ago

Fredybeans

9.5

Robe évoluée
Nez sur l huître presque réduit
Bouche grasse dense beurrée puis finale ultra dense et massive — 3 years ago

with Pico

Riccardo Arrigoni

9.7

100% PN, origine uve tutte Ambonnay dal lieu dit Les crayeres. Base vendemmia 2014. Fermentazione 100% barrique. Vins de reserve 40% 2013. Maturazione sui lieviti 74 mesi. Deg dicembre 2021. Dosage 2 g/L un frutto stratosferico morbido scattante teso ma levigato. Bellissimo — 4 years ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.7

This will throw you off. First impression this is a young Rhône. First taste this a Rhône. The wine is all about power, full bodied, meaty. Not a lot of fruit nor any hard tannins. The wine is round and fills your mouth. Only on the back of your tongue you start experiencing some salinity and some of the typical barnyard Pinot. Not your regular clos de la roche, you either consider this as an anomaly or you can really like it. I decided to like it as a monumental effort but I am surprised it is a clos de l roche of one of the best producers. — 6 years ago

web bond

9.1

Disgorgement: April 19, 2017
Bottling Date: July 24, 2013(almost entirely 2012 vintage)
Dosage: 4.8 G/L
70% Pinot Noir & 30% Chardonnay
100% Verzenay Grand Cru


— 6 years ago

Fredybeans

9.4

Robe rubis tirant sur le brun
Nez épices et chaleureux de coulis de cerises
Bouche suave et ample délicate au tanins ultra gourmands et savoureux longuet énorme sur les épices
Je l aurai place en Bourgogne et avec du pinot noir ...... — 7 years ago