Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

Pale lemon color with medium+ intensity aromas of floral, ripe stone and citrus fruits with earthy herb notes. On the palate flavors of ripe peach, apple, lemon citrus, apricot, melon with wet stone mineral. Vivid acidity with great mouthfeel on medium+ dry mineral finish. Good now! — 14 days ago

Henry Fuseler

9.0

11/2025. Crisp and good flavor. — 3 days ago

John Bratincevic

9.0

Smells like seawater and raw egg — saline!

Light, crisp, lemon, seawater. A little bread crust on the back end if you look for it. Good and elegant — but tastes more like a good cremant than what I expect from champagne. 90. — a month ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

2023 vintage. Screw cap. Trader Joe’s selection. Have picked up a few bottles of this every year over the last decade just to have as haus wine-esp during the holidaze. This is the best vintage I’ve had. Structure. Fruit. Accessibility. It has rolled at $7.99 a bottle as long as I can remember. Grabbed a bottle without checking the price but assuming it’s still $10 or less. Drinking like it’s a $25 bottle. Picking up more this week. 11.18.28. — 2 days ago

Joaquin Martinez

8.9

Non vintage, laid in chalk Cellars in 2015 and disgorged in 2020. Incredible wine. — 24 days ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

Time for something from France.

I’ve generally not been a huge fan of Taittingers N/V, but after a series of Croatian wines, it seems much better. Just goes to the saying, everything’s relative! .

@AmbassorHotel-Split, Croatia. — a month ago

Carter White

9.2

Crunchy and yeasty, delicious! — 4 days ago

Jason Keefer

9.2

So much tart apple, I thought it was schramsberg! A little toasted almond and brioche in there as well. Super enjoyable! — 6 days ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.1

We thought this bottle was too advanced.. — 4 days ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Been awhile since I’ve had this one. Always consistently good.

Beautiful mousse, bruised red apple & Bosc pear, underripe pineapple flesh, blood orange, quince, nougat, hints of white peach, white spice-ginger, whipped cream, yeasty bread dough, sea spray, speckled chalk bits, grey volcanics, limestone, withering yellow lilies/flowers, crisp acidity, well tensioned-structured, well balanced and elegant finish that last two-minutes.

@BalancesRestaurant - Lucerne. — a month ago