Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Thursday, April 21, 2016 - Pale yellow-green color. Surprisingly restrained, lean and savory nose with somewhat reticent aromas of stone dust, some yeasty French bread and a hint of red apple. The wine is dry, mineral and quite full-bodied on the palate with fresh and rather concentrated flavors of stony minerality, apple peel bitterness, some leesy creaminess, a little bit of mealy green apple and a mineral hint of mouth-drying chalk dust. Overall the wine feels ripe without any sense of sweetness. The high acidity lends good sense of intensity, while the silky smooth mousse keeps the wine creamy and approachable. The finish is crisp, firm and dry with lengthy flavors of apple peel bitterness, stony minerality, some chalk dust tones and a hint of apple.

A ripe yet bone-dry Blanc de Blancs that feels very mineral and almost devoid of fruit, yet still surprisingly approachable due to its rather concentrated, almost mouth-filling character. Overall the wine feels still too young and most likely the wine is just so tightly-knit that the fruit remains hidden underneath a tough layer of minerality. I'd let the wine wait for another 4-6 years just to coax out some fruit and complexity. Maybe a bit too lean and understated BdB for my taste, but there's definitely some real charm to the minerality and elegance here. Promising.

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