Community Tasting Note

• melvinyeowq wrote: 92 points

  April 29, 2023 - Smoked meats with Jason: Haven’t tried her higher-level bottlings before, decided to blind this for a couple of Courtin haters. Disgorged 2017, zero dosage. Quite shrill, acidic citrus fruit, creamy texture, and as someone pointed out quite a hollow midpalate that her champagnes usually have. Still enjoyable for me though, felt the wine showed good development after some time in the bottle post-disgorgement.

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• Frank Murray III commented:

  4/30/23, 10:58 AM - So few notes on this wine so having yours helps to enlarge this discussion. A bottle like this is probably destined to keep someone hating on the wines...did it succeed with them? I have a single 2013 I bought back in late 2017 and probably should open it and see how it is doing.

• melvinyeowq commented:

  5/1/23, 3:50 AM - Thank Frank, their verdict was nice but would not buy before revealing so I guess they weren't convinced still. This has lost the shrill acidity that they associate with her wines, for me it's in a good place now with some roundness with few sharp edges remaining.

• Frank Murray III commented:

  5/1/23, 11:28 AM - A related reply....when I visited her last year, she poured me a 2013 Resonance that was really delicious. Drinking with an integrated profile, with some white chocolate (sounds bizarre, I know) and I'm lucky to have one left. I know that her wines, this style may not be for everyone, and I've learned and continue to be mindful to being respectful and open to other styles, even very direct opinions about style that may not be my own. Such a divisive time we live in, where people of an opposite view are seen less as people and more as objects that are wrong. It's a daily mindfulness, even with wine, Melvin, to see people as people, with a richness of difference.

• melvinyeowq commented:

  5/3/23, 9:58 AM - Lovely words Frank!

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