Community Tasting Notes 17

• Somm David T Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 20, 2024 - Nice soft mousse body, yellow peach, tropical melons, pineapple, some lemon meringue, lime zest, slightly bitter apple cider, whipped cream, hard chalkiness, alluvial limestone, saline, sea fossils, bread crust, yeastiness, yellow florals, racey acidity, nicely balanced & structured with a finish that lasts 90 seconds.
  
  Needs a few more years in bottle.

• Frank Murray III wrote:

  April 18, 2024 - Blind Champagne Tasting (Basanti in San Juan Capistrano, CA (South OC)): First crack with this vintage. September 2022 disgorgement so a good solid 5 years on the lees. 100% Chard, farmed bio-d, no dose which is the way for this cuvee. I didn't start drinking this wine until the 2012 vintage, and I have liked them all, aside from the 2015 which is pretty lean. This bottle pours with a brassy color. Real good fruit presence and texture in this vintage. It reminds me of an orange marmalade with a generous yellow apple, shaded by a gingery spice that energizes the wine from palate through the finish. Then, when I had let the wine get pretty close to room temp 70f, a thought shot through my senses....hey, this is like a slice of apple pie. The apple, some cinnamon spice and a bit of pastry. Pretty cool moment. Yep, some saline here too, to be expected given the style and soil but it's more present when the wine is cooler, replaced by more of the fruit when the wine is allowed to stretch out and shed its colder jacket. And plenty of citrus in the finish, even some anise and toast (likely from the wood). Really good iteration of Terre de Vertus--good stuffing, definition and balance....on the second day this added much more citrus and some structure too within the wine.

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• IrisTable wrote:

  April 17, 2024 - April Basanti (blind): Blind. Clean and refreshing. Lime/lemon zest, a bit of stem on the finish. On revisit, as it got warmer, I got something like orange curd. Really well done for 0 dosage BdB.

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• mattyboy_ Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 17, 2024 - Utterly delicious. Plenty of tension with richness - toast, brioche, hazelnuts, lemon confit. Fun to drink now.

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• WetRock wrote:

  April 17, 2024 - Wednesday Champagnes at Basanti: Served blind. Pretty nose. Florals over lifted lemon. Very fresh. Mineral and lean young apple. Plenty of richness. Grippy though there is a touch of a bite on the finish. Very nice considering the lack of dose. Good fruit out of this site makes that decision more palatable than most. This wine will likely benefit from a couple more years rest.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type White - Sparkling
• Producer Larmandier-Bernier
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Terre de Vertus
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Champagne
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Champagne Premier Cru
• UPC Codes 7350123780529, 7350123784848

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• Pending Delivery 64 (19%)
• In Cellars 232 (67%)
• Consumed 49 (14%)

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