Community Tasting Note

Josch48 Likes this wine:

Monday, October 31, 2022 - Tried this on excellent advice from several CellarTracker mates after having very disappointing Veuve Clicquot and Bollinger champagne experiences.
Medium straw yellow color with an austere presentation of creamy yeast and a wisp of vanilla crème brûlée on the nose.
The mouthfeel is clean, bracing, and full, with a complementary acidity that drips with lemon and tropical fruit notes. Definitely an interesting and pleasing NV champagne cellared in 2015 and disgorged in 2018. Youthful and vibrant with a lingering finish of key lime, and after the seemingly fleeting bubbles have subsided, the residual semi-still wine is delicious.
In my limited yet representative sampling of champagnes over the years, I still seek a style that reaches out and draws me into its charms. In the past, various vintages of Tattinger, Bollinger, and a scant few Dom Perignon, along with very satisfying wines from “lesser” houses were delicious and memorable, but to find a consistent style, even from the same house, has proven to be most elusive. I find champagne to be the most ephemeral of all wines in terms of establishing the fruition of expectation, and perhaps that quality, as it is in all meaningful relationships, is the most exquisite quality of all.
Of note, this is the first champagne we have had that sports a non-expansive terminal end cork, whose shape handily accommodates the re-stopping of the bottle.

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