No detailed notes but this is an outstanding and classy Champagne which is hard to beat at its price point. Toasty and creamy enough to be a very welcoming aperitif but with enough structure to pair very well with seafood. A glass left unattended for 4 hours had lost none of its charm.

From 375ml bottle. Light silver gold. Nose is quite yeasty and slightly pongy socks....touch of salted fish and iodine. Palate is attractively salty in a Hong Kong dried salted fish - ‘Ham Yu’ - way, old leather shoes, sour banana, quite rich. Very heady and quite long finish. An acquired taste, but I have acquired it tonight.

Opened for a couple of hours but not decanted. Semi-opaque dusty velvet ruby colour. Nose is lovely soft but still structured red and black fruits, dried Middle Eastern spices. Palate is nicely fresh, medium-bodied, slightly sweet cranberry driven fruit. Mellow and mellows even more in a slightly sweeter way with extended time in the glass. Tamarind comes out. Moderate initial length that then really fills out. Tonight I preferred its 2006 sibling, which is unusual for me to like a younger wine but I think reflects that the 1992 is likely past its best....lacking the freshness of a 1959 CVNE Vina Real I drank two weeks ago.

Magnum decanted for 2 hours then drank over the next four. Freshly jeweled deeply opaque ruby. Nose is a lovely immediate attack of precise graphite, anthracite coal, coconut, gunpowder, hidden black fruit in the background. Nice clean American oak. Palate is fresh, nice bright acidity, bright red berries, some deeper toned black currant fruit in the background. Young but already approachable in a New World way although still quite tannic. Needs time to unfurl over the next 5 years but it is already open enough to try.

An amontillado....this is the white label "Aged 15 Years". Deep golden almond colour. Nose is burnt Demerara sugar and toasted almonds. Palate is very bitter, like Anastura bitters. Not my thing and I couldn't finish the glass.