July 29, 2023 - Very nice champagne with notes of apples, brioche and decent salinity. Good complexity and fine bubbles.
June 30, 2023 - Quick note. Moderate flavors of lemon, mandarin, and a hint of sweetness. Non-champagne drinkers kept coming back to this.
May 27, 2023 - Consumed over two days at the Casita in Pedregal.
Base 18. I really need to lay off these youthful wines.
Enjoyable but not ready IMO.
April 28, 2023 - Bienvenue a Champagne; 4/20/2023-4/29/2023 (Les Crayeres, various restaurants, Les Avises and a many wonderful producers): The story behind this wine was fascinating. Much like ourselves Rodolphe has always really enjoyed old wines and wines that are truly quite old and so he set about to figure out what flavor it was that he found so compelling. He settled on marzipan and so he started thinking about how he could give his wines some of that marzipan style. This is all reserve wine mixed from the best large barrel, best stainless steel tank and best concrete vessel. He hit it right on. Sometimes people mention a flavor and I don’t get it but it’s fully here. A bit more of an evolved style and much easier to drink younger. Hazelnut and almond butter and slightly toasty. Drinks quite well.
February 12, 2023 - Grapefruit peel and rind and gingery notes too in an urgent nose - creamy chalky concentrated - outshined a storied Calicab in vinous metrics
June 25, 2022 - First time with this cuvée. Very much enjoyed it. The nose was a bit oxidative at first then becomes fresher with air showing lemon curd, minerals, apple, earth. The palate is fresh and lifted with lovely tension. Good stuff. Couldn’t find a disgorgement date
June 4, 2022 - Still a baby
May 20, 2022 - Medium toasty robe. Nice balance and concentration
May 6, 2022 - This was showing extremely well after just 20 minutes. Nose was full of brioche without the palate being too rich. Well balanced - would drink again
February 7, 2022 - Nose of lemon, grapefruit, green apple. Crisp and high acidity. Fresh and sharp.