Community Tasting Notes 10

• MRE Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 10, 2024 - In a very good state now, slightly maturing fruits, lemons, green apple, touch of tropical, toast, yesat, salt and sea. Good acid, perfecymt balance. A true joy.

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• csimm wrote: flawed

  March 19, 2022 - Initially the flaw here was more difficult to detect, with an herbal note that seemed to add interest on the first pull of the cork. The nose was completely muted. With air, an alkaline note emerged and the finish became extremely sharp and bitter. The “fruit” became stomped on by the metallic spike on the tail that numbed the tip of the tongue. Off-bottle indeed.

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• sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 25, 2021 - My greatest day of wine (over)consumption. Ever. (Aaron and Tiffany's pad): Yet another csimm contribution (I'm going to have to learn more languages to say thank you in), this and most following notes will be shorter if only because I don't want to be here for the next 24 hours, which I'm on pace for. Light golden beige, medium+ bodied, bang on acidity, no heat. Tremendous intensity, very good persistence, moderate+ complexity. Ok, so we had this wine with caviar which Brian brought (thank you, thank you, thank you, Brian), which I probably would have eaten more than my fair share of but for concerns that it might be on the verboten side of my current food ledger, and the pairing was a 98-99. This isn't one of your BdBs that actually tastes kind of sweet, and really works mostly on its own or with dessert. This is great on its own, but hits another gear when paired with the right savory foods (said caviar, raw oysters, soosh). Savory and delicious, with pinpoint nerviness and tension. I volunteered to bring a '05 Taittinger CdC and was talked out of it; good thing, as it likely would not have been better than this and probably not as good, at a far higher price point (who knew csimm was a man of value as well as outright excellence?). Against, one day removed, a Moet I had last night, the Moet looked like me running against Carl Lewis in our respective primes. If you can find this anywhere near the WS price, buy it, unless my hand is on the bottle. 94-95+, with the likelihood it will get better, maybe a lot, before it gets worse, thanks to that acidity.

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• Richard123 Likes this wine: 90 points

  September 18, 2021 - Found this to be on the tart side of the champagne spectrum. Not a knock, just a style note. Very well made.

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• Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  June 17, 2021 - sleek sweet citrus and honeysuckle on the nose, cream already evident, on the palate lush fruit, citrus and melon notes leading into a vibrant lime acid finish, very lively and diverse, as with the 2014 Suenen "Robarts" recently tasted- this points to 2014 being a very fresh, lively and exciting vintage.
  
  **(**), now to 2028+

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type White - Sparkling
• Producer Pierre Paillard
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Blanc de Blancs
• Vineyard Les Mottelettes
• Country France
• Region Champagne
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Champagne Grand Cru
• UPC Code 3535140140417

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• In Cellars 113 (72%)
• Consumed 45 (28%)

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