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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.9 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 910 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Sean Tay on 4/15/2024 & rated 89 points: Medium nose intensity with notes of green apple, lemon, pear. (946 views) | | | Tasted by jkscully on 4/6/2024: Very few, slow-moving bubbles compared to other champagnes that I’ve opened recently. This was very bracing at first, but after about 30 minutes, it came together with nice apple and pear fruit flavors and good creamy, lemon curd flavors. I tasted this with Tom and Kim and didn’t get great notes. I think some age would have been nice for this wine, as I suspect it would have developed more creamy notes and the acidity would have calmed down a bit more. (710 views) | | | Tasted by astroman on 4/1/2024 & rated 94 points: Base 2021, bottle Jul 22, disgorged Nov 23, dosage 2.5g/l, blend of C, PN and M, pronounced aromas of spice, nutmeg, lovely energetic core on the palate with good finish. This is absolutely beautiful and punching way above its level. Alexandre mention he was affected by tornado in 2021 and was lucky to be able to get such a fantastic cuvee. (875 views) | | | Tasted by Vas19 on 3/31/2024 & rated 91 points: 2019 base disgorged October 2021. Tiny oxidative hints on the nose. Palate lacks some complexity but is pleasant enough. Decent. (995 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 3/30/2024 & rated 92 points: A private dinner (Café Parlotte, Amsterdam, NL): Same disgorgement as earlier this month. Apple and citrus, hazelnut, generous and fresh, yeast and minerals, youthful and energetic but harmonious, juicy and supple, long and flowing finish. (1179 views) | | | Tasted by vagrantone on 3/25/2024 & rated 91 points: A significantly better showing yesterday with the balance and elegance expected.
The length seemed to have improved. Nice (1170 views) | | | Tasted by Vinobystino on 3/21/2024 & rated 90 points: Really nice drinking champagne. Some oxidative characters, adding complexity and body. More body than the Heurtebise, but definitely more simple and less length. Very good though. (1131 views) | | | Tasted by WetRock on 3/19/2024: "Mostly 2020". Disg 10/22. A touch of minty herbiness. Otherwise the nice, solid Champagne I expect from this bottling. 4 g/L gives it the oomph to be inviting. Light touch of toastiness on the periphery. A solid disgorgement of this bottling. Its become something of a go-to for me in terms of reliable NV's. (1203 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 3/17/2024 & rated 85 points: Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Recent release. Something off about the palate here, that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Almond, almost? I think this came off a little volatile and unsettled; the Bereche next to it clearly demonstrated the difference. (1601 views) | | | Tasted by Gargantua on 3/16/2024: Richer and more depth than I recalled. Quite nice. (1005 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 3/3/2024 & rated 92 points: A private dinner (Café Parlotte, Amsterdam, NL): From vineyards in Merfy and Saint-Thierry, base vintage 2021, all three classic varieties in undisclosed proportions, fermented and aged in barrel, bottled July 2022, disgorged October 2023 with a dosage of 2.5 gr/l. Ripe and vinous but with a firm core of acidity, mildly earthy, red apple, generous and rounded, spicy, good body, not hugely elegant but certainly satisfying. (1459 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 2/4/2024 & rated 90 points: Oxidative, nice brioche and fruit. The bottle did not get the attention it deserved (1789 views) | | | Tasted by Eugenedinapoli on 2/3/2024: med light gold w a greenish hue. Crisp but with a distinct roundness and yeasty, pastry undertones (1458 views) | | | Tasted by gilrbo on 1/15/2024: Oxidative in style, but only lightly and in a way which adds complexity and interest. Very nice to drink now, but could go on several more years. (2148 views) | | | Tasted by JWS84 on 12/31/2023: This was very round compared to the Pierre Peters. Lots of orchard fruits and some toastiness. The last third of the bottle showed the best. An excellent value. (1776 views) | | | Tasted by gilrbo on 11/28/2023: Drunk as aperitif at an informal family gathering. No TN.
Very nice. (2678 views) | | | Tasted by astroman on 10/27/2023: Champagne Tasting on Champagne Day (Park 90): Mostly from 2020 harvest, bottled 07/21, disgorged June 2023, dosage 4g/l, with blend of C, PN, M. Impressions. Fantastic aromas lots going on with long finish. Impressive entry level cuvée for Taillet. (2998 views) | | | Tasted by renwom on 10/14/2023 & rated 90 points: Lovely, solid outing, pleasant and refined to drink. Some lemon and yeast on the nose, not the finest bubbles but smooth, held up well throughout the evening, and of course paired with everything, from cheese and charcuterie thru oxtail dinner and apple crumble. Great QPR. (2866 views) | | | Tasted by Deadhead on 10/7/2023 & rated 92 points: Our last of the November 2016 disgorgement. Lovely as ever! (2553 views) | | | Tasted by Rallerboy888 on 10/2/2023 & rated 95 points: This is an absolutely extraordinary champagne! 2020-base, disgorged february 2023.
There's so much intensity in this, and it deliver the complexity of an oxidative wine while retaining amazing freshness, and showing nothing in terms of oxidised notes. What's the point in buying prestige cuvées, when you can drink this? (2690 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 9/27/2023 & rated 90 points: A very solid all rounder. Full on Apple feel, polished and round , very light yeasty side and dominated for sure but rich apple notes at times those bruised apple notes we associate with Blanc de Blancs ( this is not a BdB ) . Very pretty albeit lacked precision. 90
2019 bottling of the 2018 vintage albeit not a vintage wine and 2022 disgorgement at Brut Dosage (2363 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 9/18/2023 & rated 92 points: Over dinner, no formal notes. Mainly 2017, disgorged in June 2020, 5gr/l dosage. Very elegant and linear, with good fruit, vibrant acidity and decent depth and length. Quite expressive on the nose. Drinking well. 91-93 (2331 views) | | | Tasted by jviz on 9/7/2023 & rated 90 points: Popped and poured, finish the bottle over the course of an evening. It was nice, fresh, with flavors of lemon, sliced almonds, tart cut, and low-dosage. I’ve had better bottles in the past, so perhaps this is a more recent disgorgement and in need of time. (2198 views) | | | Tasted by pmarlo on 9/7/2023 & rated 90 points: Popped good. Slight pineapple. Tasty. Pale yellow. Bouquet upon first pop but not after. Tart. Another reviewer said mousse is fierce, and reminded me of pouring a Bud in a very narrow glass and watching the head creep up the sides. Now open a few minutes, lemon. Felt this at back of tongue and front of top palate. Like this and would buy again. Trying to determine what might be my go to Champagne in $40-$70 range. A contender. Worthy of buying again. Had last sip on 6th and was chablis-like, and well-behaved and not acid brutal. (1910 views) | | | Tasted by Lady Chatelaine on 9/2/2023 & rated 87 points: Easy going, but nothing to run after.
I do admit that it’s a fair quality/price and as an « aperitif » it will quench your thirst (1923 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color with abundant, steady, tiny bubbles; lifted, almond nose; tasty, almond, almond cream palate; medium-plus finish (65% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay) 92+ points 92 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light straw yellow color with abundant, steady, tiny bubbles; focused, ripe apple, tart pear nose; tasty, clean, fresh, crystalline, tart apple, very mineral, chalk, saline palate with mouthwatering medium acidity; medium-plus finish (60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir; 4 grams dosage; blend of family's parcels throughout Merfy) 91+ points 91 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color with steady, tiny bubbles; tart apple, tart pear, yeasty nose; yeasty, tart apple, mineral palate; medium-plus finish (good value) 91 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color with tiny bubbles; apple, tart pear nose; tart apple, lemon palate; medium finish 90 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color with lots of smallish bubbles; poised, tart pear, baked apple nose; tasty, very tart pear, tart apple palate; medium finish (60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir) 89 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color; ripe apple, baked apple nose; tart apple, tart pear palate; medium-plus finish 89 points | By Terry Theise
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet "Cuvée St. Anne" Brut) ($47.00) The crossing has been completed. No longer the soft, apples and butter wine of old (which I liked and will miss!), the new cuvée is starched, oystery and firm, with great authority and underlying richness, and a fine shimmer of saltiness on the finish, which also shows a solid deep PN note. It’s 80% ’07 and 20% ’06-’05, 60%CH/40%PN. Decidedly on the dry side. |  By Gary Vaynerchuk
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(Chartogne Taillet Cuvee St. Anne) #2; COLOR-golden; NOSE-the nose is just gigantic; toasty; lemon custard; PALATE-round; creamy; at $31 bones, this is just a joke; just a GREAT QPR; PR-90; GV-92+ 92+ points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color; apple nose; tart apple palate with medium acidity; medium-plus finish 90 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Light yellow color; creamy citrus nose; citrus, cream palate; medium finish 88 points | By Richard Jennings
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(NV Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte Anne) Sweet orange blossom nose; sweet peach and cream with lovely acid, the Pinot coming through; medium-plus finish 91+ pts. (50% Pinot) 91 points |
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| Chartogne-Taillet Producer Website
Region: Montagne de Reims
Cru sites in Merfy, Chenay and Saint Thierry
Total vineyard holdings: 11.68 hectares
Annual production: 6,700 cases
Vines: 50% pinot noir, 40% chardonnay, 10% pinot meunier
Chartogne-Taillet (MERFY)
The vineyards of Merfy, seven kilometers north of Reims, lie on the southern slopes of the Massif de Saint-Thierry in the Montagne de Reims. These slopes were planted shortly after the arrival of the Romans and monks of the neighboring Abbey of Saint-Thierry expanded the vineyards in the 7th century. By the 9th century, the vines surrounding the abbey represented the single largest concentration of vines in Champagne and the wines from Merfy earned a great reputation and found their way to the Royal table.
Today, Chartogne-Taillet remains the only RM producer in the village and under Alexandre Chartogne’s guidance, the wines of Chartogne-Taillet are some of the most sought-after Champagnes being produced. Alexandre worked with Anslem Selosse, who he describes as “my wine father”, returning home in 2006. The first wine that he produced was the 2006 vintage of Les Barres, a very special parcel of ungrafted Meunier, planted in 1952. The soil in this parcel is sand for almost 3 meters before the roots reach the chalk bedrock, allowing the vines “to live in two environments”.
In 2007 Alexandre assumed control of the entire estate. In the early years, Alexandre experimented with lots of different vessels for fermentation and elevage, including amphorae and concrete eggs. Watching the wines, vineyards and Alexandre himself evolve over the last 10 years has been extraordinary.
“When I think back to my ancestors, I think that they knew what they were doing. There was nothing bad in the vineyards and the wines were made in oak. This is my direction after many years of seeing other things and watching the wines develop.” Says
In the vineyards, Alexandre does not follow any certifications; his goal is “to respect the soil populations as much as I can”. His work is followed by Claude and Lydia Bourguignon, the two foremost experts on soil microbiology. “I do not use chemicals, herbicides, insecticides … and plough half of my vineyards with my horses. Most of the work is made by hand, but … no certification.” Sheep and Chickens are used for fertilization and focus is put on the health of the soil as Chartogne believes that the transmission of terroir comes only though careful work in the vineyard. Horses are kept on the property and used for ploughing and a majority of the work in the vineyard is made by hand.
After careful selection and harvest, the wine is pressed in a 4,000kg pneumatic press. Fermentation is especially important at this address: “Everything is fermented with native fermentation in my house. The second fermentation have also native but selected inside my vineyards. I have my own yeasts. But for the first (alcoholic) fermentation, it’s always 100% native from the vineyards, without pied de cuve” says Alexandre. In a region where neutral base wines and clarity was favored over the heterogeneity that comes with native yeast fermentation, this philosophy is still at odds with the majority of producers in Champagne today. Fermentation is done mostly in wood: 228 liter barrels with some 600 liter French Oak. There is still stainless steel at the estate and reserve wine is held in large underground concrete tanks, but Alexandre is building a new cellar to store more oak and moving to this medium for his primary mode of elevage and fermentation. Normally base wines are aged for 9 months before assemblage and tasting. “Malolactic is part of the wines” Alexandre says. “The wines from my village makes it (malo) all the time, so (I am) malo friendly”.
Starting with the very first year back at home, Chartogne was experimenting with special, single parcel bottlings. Today, he produces wines from 8 different parcels: Les Barres, Beaux Sens, Le Coarres, Couarres Château, Heurtebise, Orizeaux, Les Alliées and Chemin de Reims. In each parcel a different variety planted, but Chartogne is adamant about the variety not being important. “It is the soil and the place that is most important. The variety is just the transmission of the feeling of that place” says Alexandre. In addition to the very small production parcelle wines, he produces a Rosé, which he considers to be the wine that carries the biggest imprint of the winemaker, as well as a non-vintage called Saint-Anne, which expresses the different terroirs of Merfy. Ste. Anne is a village wine, and an excellent lesson in just how fine wine from “cru normal” made with expertise and care can be.
“I wasn’t surprised when Alexandre assumed the estate, and I wasn’t surprised that he was ambitious. What did surprise me, and continues to surprise me, is that he is the most passionately curious vigneron I know, not only in Champagne, but just maybe anywhere. He is pursuing something that doesn’t take the form of accolades though these will surely come—and hardly even asks for answers. It’s a quest for a kind of immersion, an unquenchable desire to experience.
I believe that Alexandre Chartogne is the most exciting young producer in Champagne. And I also believe he drank from the fountain of wisdom when he said to me, “I do not feel good when I’m sure about something.” Because that’s how you measure the hunger in a man’s soul.”
-Terry TheiseN.V. Chartogne-Taillet Champagne Cuvée Sainte AnneChartogne-Taillet - Merfy, Montagne de Reims
·Vineyard area: 12 hectares
·Annual production: 6,700 cases
·Soil types: Chalk with sandstone
·Grape varieties: 50% Pinot Noir, 10% Pinot Meunier,40% Chardonnay
Terry Thiesse tells us The most important passion our young hero, Alexandre Chartogne, brings is a result of his practicum at Selosse; biodynamics. With Chartogne-Taillet one appreciates the significance of terroir. Theirs is an example of just how wonderful wines can be simply because of how talented and conscientious they are. Their land, while good (Merfy is "84%" on the Echelle de Crus) is not aristocratic, and I'm certain if we could transplant them to, say, Aÿ or Mesnil they'd promptly take their place among the elite. Merfy in fact lies in the so-called Coteaux de Vesle; it sits on what was once the beach of an ocean covering what is now the Reims depression. Thus its 60cm of sand over the chalk, and a corresponding yielding grace about the wines. Something else that gets into Chartogne's Champagne is older base-wine. You both taste and infer it immediately; flavors are more integrated and texture is more satiny. This calls for quite an investment.
Racy, spicy Champagnes at the low end; sumptuous, brioche-y Champagnes at the top. For some reason, a consistent standout in blind tastings! The basic wine is keen and racy, and the upper-end wines are virtually luscious, they are so brioche-y and creamy. Lovers of old-style Champagnes are encouraged to look closely at these. More recent cuvées have shown a silken complexity that's consistent enough to infer the design of a knowing hand.Champagne Blend"Champagne blend" is a classic grape blend that typically includes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and/or Pinot Meunier in any proportions.
However, this blend can also include Arbane, Fromenteau (Pinot Gris), Petit Meslier and/or Pinot Blanc as well.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comChampagne Le Champagne (Le comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne) | Grandes Marques & Maisons de Champagne (Union des Maisons de Champagne)
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Champagne - The French region of Champagne (including the cities of Rheims, Épernay, and Aÿ) was the first region in the world to make sparkling wine in any quantity. Today, the name of the region is synonymous with the finest of all sparkling wines, and wine-making traditions of Champagne have become role models for sparkling wine producers, worldwide. Surprisingly, the region of Champagne is now responsible for only one bottle in 12 of all sparkling wine produced. Styles of champagne range in sweetness ranging from an extra brut or brut 0, to the basic brut to demi sec to doux; some houses produce single vintage champagnes and others produce non-vintage (or incorporate wines/grapes of multiple vintages), often to preserve a specific taste; combinations of grape varietals; and colors, including a rosé. There are several sub-appellations, including the Valley of the Marnes river running from Épernay west, Massif de Saint-Thierry north and west of Rheims, Valley of the Ardre, the Mountains of Rheims (between Rheims and Épernay), Côte des Blancs, Côte de Sézanne, and Côte des Bar in the South. Champagne wine only uses three grape varietals (cépages): Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier.ChampagneThe vineyards of Champagne on weinlagen-info |
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