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95 Points

Friday, December 21, 2018 - Les Barres vertical for 冬至 (Chicago, IL): In a word, awesome. I've really loved how all the grower 2009s have turned out. The riper vintage really gives lots of balance to a style that I think is generally too lean (Chartogne-Taillet is an exception to that though). There's tons of intensity to this wine -- lots of delicious sweet fruit that is nicely balanced by the acids. Great complexity, and with air, this actually picked up some really delicious autolytic biscuity notes. Fantastic champagne -- I'm so glad I went deep on this vintage.

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  • Comment posted by nphase:

    12/23/2018 3:12:00 PM - Definitely WOTN for me.

  • Comment posted by acyso:

    1/1/2019 6:44:00 PM - @TheLittleHorse: very interested to hear your take, and whether you agree. I'm looking forward to tasting how 2015s turned out as I suspect it may be in that same vein. I greatly underestimated 2009.

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