Community Tasting Note

• Frank Murray III wrote:

  August 10, 2023 - January 2022 disgorgement. Served side-by-side with the Grand Cellier d'Or (both done blind). 80/20 Pinot Noir/Chard. 7 gms of dosage. First bottle of this new release (well, I believe at this time right now that this is current release of CdC here in the West US). This has good tension, yet with some of the vintage showing, as this gave me some impression of pineapple, along with the citrusy lime, and the usual orange fruit akin to tangerine. One difference though between this wine and the 2015 GCdO is that the 2015 CdC expressed a stony quality, that texture of something slatey. I preferred the CdC in this flight again (as I did the 2014 flight), but I did find that the GCdO was not far behind in this vintage, and that both wines expressed the sun of the vintage well.

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• D!n@sh commented:

  8/13/23, 3:50 AM - Frank, how would you compare 14 v 15?

• Frank Murray III commented:

  8/13/23, 12:17 PM - Hi. We did the same experiment with 2014 GCdO and CdC, at the same dinner. 15 GCdO fleshier, with really density, whereas the 14 GCdO is more electric, the Chardonnay seeming brighter to me, with green apple presence. All 4 wines we did earlier this week, plus the 2014 Emotion, are all in my notes that I logged in here. I like both vintages, I just think the 2015 is more sensory pleasing and the 2014 more linear and racy.

• D!n@sh commented:

  8/14/23, 3:24 AM - Thanks Frank.
  
  Given I don’t like very lean/ steely champagnes, I have a feeling I might like 2915 more (not to suggest 14 Vilmart is lean/ steely).

• Frank Murray III commented:

  8/14/23, 9:19 AM - Keep my comment in context. Laurent presents wines with terrific acidity, and showcases the low pH well, but he also isn't making Brut Nature styled wines. The 2014s have texture but they also have some spine.

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