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• Matt Neel Likes this wine:

  October 15, 2023 - 2012 Nathalie Falmet Champagne Cuvée Le Val Cornet
  Luminous, golden straw. The nose positively erupts with cinnamon (!), bread dough, Champagne yeast, and egg yolk; in time, that mess integrates into brioche and oxidative notes evoking baking spices (nutmeg, ginger), crème brûlée, and focusing orange-peel oil. Gorgeous, and more than a little heady without any heat at all. Exquisitely poised on the palate, with a mellow bead; gentle cream and brioche (eggs, yeast, bread), fleshy yellow pit-fruits, with calmly assertive acidity framing the fruit. Wonderful length, and though I wouldn't age this because it's so delicious now, its pinpoint balance will carry it for a decade or two, effortlessly, and likely to good effect. It would be hard to overstate how much this wine grew on me… Scrumptious, it's a portrait of finesse, breed, and balance.
  (From the back label: Disgorged 20 Sep 2017; 12% ABV; "Pinot Noir et Pinot Meunier").

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