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
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
Jul 11th, 2020
Another killer Wednesday Wine Committee lineup. As always, 1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds and 1 dessert wine. All tasted blind.
New producer to me. And I don’t think I recall seeing “old vine” champagne before, and it being vintage even. I called this older NV French champagne...it had sweet toast on the nose with nougat, but the palate was more refreshing with limestone, chalk and a touch of stone fruit. I’d like to taste one of these younger to get a feel for style. Quite nice.
Another killer Wednesday Wine Committee lineup. As always, 1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds and 1 dessert wine. All tasted blind.
New producer to me. And I don’t think I recall seeing “old vine” champagne before, and it being vintage even. I called this older NV French champagne...it had sweet toast on the nose with nougat, but the palate was more refreshing with limestone, chalk and a touch of stone fruit. I’d like to taste one of these younger to get a feel for style. Quite nice.
May 1st, 2019
One of the wines of the vintage every time I taste it it gets better, laser beam focus , and stunning complexity!
One of the wines of the vintage every time I taste it it gets better, laser beam focus , and stunning complexity!
Jul 12th, 2015
2005. Reminds me of a hybrid between the '03 and '04. Comes through like a wine wanting cellaring. 5 g/l dosage, disgorged October 2014.
2005. Reminds me of a hybrid between the '03 and '04. Comes through like a wine wanting cellaring. 5 g/l dosage, disgorged October 2014.
Dec 23rd, 2014
Avize, Côte des Blancs, Champagne, France
