Community Tasting Note

austinwinesalon wrote:

Sunday, December 12, 2010 - The Other Great French Blancs: Champagne and Sauternes (Wink Restaurant, Austin, Texas): I would have thought this the front-runner in a group of top Blanc de Blancs, but this was either a bit-off bottle or a “controversial style” bubbly. Some tasters thought it over-ripe and possibly oxidized, others that it was expansive, interesting, even “cool.” It had a straw nose, what one taster described as “unfiltered sake,” along with some cantaloupe, was big and rich, of fruit and botrytis flavors, including cantaloupe and honeydew, lychee, banana, almonds, hazelnut, and, even, brandy. One unimpressed taster found it tasted like grappa at the finish. Those that liked this style loved it, and those that didn’t, well, they let it finish last in this flight. Although this is labeled a brut, it is a brut blanc de blancs as the Initiale is all chardonnay.

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