Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Sunday, June 11, 2023 - Blind Champagne Tasting (Astrid's House): Served blind. And as unlikely as it may be to have happen, we had 2 exact bottles of this wine included in the same blind line-up. And as ironic as that is, even moreso the two bottles were in sequence to each other, both bottles closed out the tasting. So, to see the bags come off, and to see the same bottle tasted twice in succession, it's one of those rare moments in my tasting history of doing this for 3 decades that I was stumped. They were both taken from the same importer box, so the conclusion was the same disgorgement/wine, yet I didn't have any disgorge info. 60% Chard, 28% Pinot Noir, with 12% Bouzy Rouge still wine. Both bottles had a salmon light pink color, so that was consistent. Both bottles also, at least for me, exhibited a dosage expression that made the wine have a lime candy quality. One bottle I noted the wine as a 'lime icee', and the other bottle had a 'lime chew' quality. In one bottle, the red fruit was was more drinkable and balanced, and in the other bottle the red fruit was more jammy in tone. Yet, to have the wines one after the other, I had no clue at all that the wines were identical. In sum, a great memory, a good laugh and something I will never forget in my wine tasting life!

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