This wine is still excellent. But the level of enjoyment depends on your palate. If you enjoy aged champagne, it is in a perfect place right now. I personally still want energy and brightness, and I think it has faded a bit from my previous bottle nearly a decade ago. There's no mistaking the Grand Cru pedigree of this champagne though. The Chardonnay base of this Blanc de Blancs is clearly evident with tons of rich lemon meringue, lemon zest. This, and the salty minerality make this a perfect pairing with oysters and chilled or grilled shellfish. I had it with a grilled California spiny lobster and it was an epic pairing. It is definitely starting to show its age though - fewer bubbles, less acid and tension, and secondary notes of a savory mushroom. Regardless of whether you think this is at peak or slightly past prime, I wouldn't hesitate to drink this up!
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Utterly delicious right now! Perfectly matured. Grilled lemons, butterscotch, baked bread, sea-breeze and chalk. Open window for drinking. Will hold for several years.
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Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Open and fresh with some yellow apples. For me, it lacks depth and excitement. A bit "hollow" in the mid-palate and just not very impressive.
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Just a great Champagne with sufficient bottle age to show the beautiful characteristics of this site. Crisp with very fine bubbles and a very satisfying, complex finish with notes of minerals and yeasty bread. Slightly oxidized flavors in a good way. Yum and with plenty of life left! At Joomak.
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Shows some earthy and mushroom oxidation in its flavors. Still very full bodied with plenty of energetic bead. Not as fresh as a magnum from earlier this month.
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Acker Auction BYO (Craft NYC): From magnum. Full, rich, youthful nose of baked apple and biscuit. The palate beams with bright, fresh, energetic fruit. Terrific balance. I didn't know the vintage when initially poured and was guessing 2008+. A a freshly poured glass two hours later was as fresh as the first.
Last of a case. Drinking very well- has that oxidized baked apple thing going along with strong chalk notes. Deep and rich, but not heavy; satisfying. A fine pairing to scrambled eggs and white truffles.
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Time to drink up. Window is closing. Think of lovely brioche bread with a side of 1er Cru Puligny Montrachet. This is this wine right now. While the wine is still viable, it is losing its plateau of freshness. Really great to drink now, but do drink up soon especially if provenance is not great. Mousse was fading as well. Really fine for its vinosity. Plush.
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Bought at PP in 2009. Pale gold colour. Perfect now. Cream, butter and burned sugar. Preserved lemon, bread and saline. Starts to show some age with hints of sherrey.
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Superfeine, Nase nach reifem Apfel und Birne, es riecht nach Bäckerei. Am Gaumen superfeine Perlage, klarer und fokussierter als der Lamandier-Bernier, präzise Säure, wunderschöne Mineralik. Grossartig!
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Purchased at the maison familiale upon release in 2008. Cellared at 55-63º since. Beautiful golden hue. The aromatics jump from the glass. There was caramel covered Granny Smith, nutty sherry notes, and a bit of Fruity Pebbles in the nose. In the mouth it is piercingly vibrant, and even a bit bitter on the side. Complex and terrific.
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From magnum. Very consistent notes to previous bottles. This is good and quite enjoyable. Hopefully these bottles stay at this plateau for some time. It would be interesting to taste from a 750 as from mag these are showing some age (in a good way).
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I am surprised to see so many people describing this wine as peaking or close to being over-the-hill. I drank the 2010 and 2008 vintages of this wine recently and this 2000 has much more in common with the '10 and '08 than with an "old" Champagne. I thought this wine was fresh, youthful and vibrant with a scintillating acidity that was almost too intense. The fruit is still primary, and the "oxidative" notes that were present seemed more to be from extended lees aging and very similar to the oxidative notes that are even present in the very young 2010 and 2008 Les Chetillons. If I had another bottle of this 2000, I'd be putting it away for a minimum of 5-7 years before retasting.
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Consistent notes. I believe this is better on its own vs other bottles. From magnum. Lemon, coffee, toast, brioche. Still very good but continue to think drink up as its straddling the line of complexity and OTH. Good energy out of the gates but becomes a still wine pretty quickly.
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Served closer to room temp. This was my first time with the Les Chetillons and I was not disappointed. Very much in the richer yeasty, briochey style of champagne. The nose was fragrant with the smell of rising bread and mornings at the bakery and a touch of burned matchstick. On the palate this was lovely, very open with toasted brioche, honey, a hit of crushed nuts. Based on this experience would like to explore more vintages of this champagne.
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Acker Auction - April 2018 (Marea in NYC): Lovely set of bubbles. Very brioche and toasty. I get an almost salty flavor here as well which is interesting. Smooth wine. Easy to drink.
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Drink next to a Krug NV from 3L. From magnum. This was a shade darker and had more complexity with more coffee, caramel, toast and less lemon and citurs. Aging nicely. Still has good energy and verve. I would say drink now and over next 5 years in this format. At peak.
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From magnum. Much fresher and more energetic than the last mag. Light yellow color with precise flavors of toast and brioche along with citrus and yellow fruits. Plenty of acid making this nice and crisp. Great bottle for New Years Eve 2017.
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From magnum. Sabred the bottle and lost a couple glasses and a little of the verve. The wine was good with nice lemon notes, yellow fruits, hints of yeasty and bready notes. A little linear and lacking some nuance but still enjoyable and fun.
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Similar tasting notes to my last one. Beautifully aged with notes of brioche, honey, nuts, chalk, lemon rind. Superb combination of precision, freshness, tension but also richness. Really beautiful as always.
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Opened yesterday, brought home the remaining few ounces and left under cork in the fridge. Today, much of the mousse is gone, leaving a beautiful still wine that is redolent of lively Chardonnay flavors. Lemon, apple, and a minerally finish. One other taster mentioned honey in their TN, and I would agree, as that shows a bit here, too. All together, this is quite beautiful, brought to dinner last night by an equally beautiful friend. It's the best wine and friends in this life that make me smile and feel so blessed.
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Very similar note to my last one but also some additional tertiary notes of honey, a touch of oxidative and nutty, as well as almost saline mineral notes. An amazingly beautiful, fully mature Blanc de Blancs from this fantastic producer. Unfortunately, only one bottle left. I absolutely adore this wine.
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Beautiful golden straw color. Yeasty dough on the nose. Notes of lemon pound cake, some nuttiness, and very distant honey, which carries over to dominate a long, tasty finish. Really hits my sweet spot for champagne.
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Fresher bottle than the last. Yellow color, relatively tight mousse. Sherried yellow fruit nose. Mature chard on the palate, with more oxidative notes, baked yellow apple, spice. Blind I would have guessed Selosse. Great showing this evening.
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Wonderful wine with fantastic balance. Beautiful nose of brioche, poached apples, and iodine. Great verve with intense minerality. Saved one glass for the next day and was not disappointed. Softened and rounded out to give me a little glimpse of where this is going. The future looks very good.
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Jacquesson and Selosse lieux-dits (D'Vine Düsseldorf): still very fresh, in the nose nuts, almonds, toast, very difficult in this flight against two selosse wines, but very elegant and concentrated if you give the wine some time, more mineral than "papa", some people guessed the vintage right, some even the village, but it was clear a pure Blanc de blancs 92-93
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This is a a great mature Blanc de Blancs. Pale gold in colour and having read the previous reviews I gave it an hour in the decanter which was needed. After the funk had blown off it was incredibly rounded, not the linear citrus you might expect from a BdB but more hazzelnut, toast, brioche and smokiness even, with a touch of cutrus yes but not pronounced at all with a the taste lingering for a good 40 seconds. A great champagne.
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Day one -- this was work to taste. A cloying sherried/oxidized note throughout, watery and hollowed midpalate, little fruit, poorly balanced. Really nothing to like aside from the mousse and adequate acid.
Day two -- a nice surprise. The oxidation has essentially disappeared. There is subdued white and yellow fruit, some petrol, some smoke and slate. Vinous harmony. I find myself going back to the bottle again and again to take small tastes -- this is cerebral and contemplative yet enjoyable. But not an easy drinker and will not suit everyone's palate for certain if this bottle is truly representative. First of three bottles -- I'd either decant in the future or give this a few hours of air before tasting.
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Very similar to my tasting note dated 10/10/2013. Medium golden color. Small medium-intense mousse. Beautiful aged nose of hazelnut, minerals, some citrus, pear and a touch of smoke, chalk and a touch of brioche. On the palate there are notes of honey, ripe fruit again as well as minerals and some spices. Medium-full body and dense but still feels kind of weightless. Medium bubbles. Medium-high acidity and great length. Absolutely gorgeous Vintage Blanc de Blancs from a fantastic producer. The finesse, freshness and elegance is stunning. I was lucky to drink quite a few bottles of this over the last two years but this was one of the best bottles I have had.
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100%-Merlot themed dinner (The American Club): Blinded. We had this to kickstart our dinner. It had a yeastly, slightly oxidative and somewhat medicinal nose. And this had quite significant palate weight, but balanced with very good minerality & freshness. A lot of power & depth; I'd liked this more if it had been a bit more elegant. Nevertheless, a great drink to start the dinner!
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Ripe stone fruit, apricot, yeast and just slight mature, oxidative notes. The palate here is just incredible - so much depth and concentration, smooth and creamy and finishes with minerals and the perfect amount of acidity. Perfect spot of maturity where there's some nice development but still so fresh. Loved this.
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Light lemon, bread, citrus nose. Full bodied, with weighty mouthfeel. Lemon, minerals, apricot, with a laser like spine of acidity and a mouthwatering finish. Great balance.
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Needed some time to get going - was a little sharp and acidic right out of the gate. Rounded out beautifully after 30 minutes. Probably not the finest Chetillons, but in a great place now.
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A total stunner and utterly compelling, the 2000 Cuvée Speciale Les Chetillons is a brilliant wine. The nose is on the verge of showing maturity, but there is still plenty of youth left. The first sniff reveals massive minerals and citrus fruit, soon joined by a soft creamy tone of sweet brioche and light toast. For being a BdB it is incredibly intense and rich, yet elegant. The palate adds very nicely to the overall experience with pleasant mousse and lovely acidity. Rodolphe Péters is moving from clarity to clarity and this effort is among the better ones I have tasted from him. It is a super Champagne!
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Over four years since I last drank this, and it's as good or even better than I remember. I think some might be hesitant to rate this higher because it is not a tete de cuvee from a big house, but I can honestly say this is right up there with the best bottles of Champagne I've had in my life (and I've had a bunch.) Drained the entire bottle myself, and trust me when I say that doesn't happen very often.
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Smoky storm white fruits, rich white peaches and bitter lemon pith. Firm structured white chalky minerals with dab of olive oil. A bit of a sappy finish. Really good.
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Champagne and Sushi (Megumi, Sentosa Golf Club): Much better than the last bottle I had earlier in the year. This was a solid champagne, very muscular and assertive – a stark contrast to the ultra-feminine, elegant 1996 Duval-Leroy Femme that preceded it. The nose here really set the tone for the wine, with funky shades of meat and earth, almost sous bois I would say, and then a subtle waft of white fruited aromas wreathed in a smoky, rather peaty scents. About as masculine a bouquet as I have come across on a Champagne. Not bad, but I actually liked the palate rather more. There was a real sense of power and breadth to the wine here, with large-scale flavours of white fruit on an earthy, mineral base. Beneath that, it had a firm structure of good acidity and a solid mousse, and then a long streak of stony mineral at the finish. Big, but yet not chunky, like a well-cut suit on a muscular frame, this was a very solid, well-made wine. While completely different from the prettily elegant Duval-Leroy -where that was all lace, this was solid muscle – I liked this very much in its own right. It was quite a magical pairing with ikura (aka fresh salmon roe) too. This bottle was disgorged in January 2010. While drinking decently well on the night, I think a couple of years more in the cellar will do it a world of good.
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Medium golden color. Small medium-intense mousse. Beautiful aged nose of hazelnut, minerals, some citrus and ripe pear and a touch of smoke and chalk. On the palate there are notes of honey, ripe fruit again as well as minerals and some spices. Medium-full body and dense but without any sense of heavyness. Medium bubbles. Medium-high acidity and great length with a touch of bitterness. Absolutely gorgeous Vintage Blanc de Blancs from a fantastic producer. It's all about finesse, freshness and class, fully mature and stunningly beautiful.
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Some secondary notes creeping in- ripe pear, apple. Just a whiff of oxidation. Drinking really well right now, enough remaining acidity and energy to evolve for a few more years
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BYO - Erik (Frederiksberg): Nose: Bread, yeast, a little coffee. Palate: Yellow plums, deep, intense, long acidic aftertaste with a little chicken stock.
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Drunk with company, no formal TN, from memory. Nose: fresh, with apples and hazelnuts, and just a touch oxydative. Fine. Even better on the palate: interesting, complex, mature and perfectly integrated. Fantastic freshness. My first vintage Champagne of this age, so it's hard to judge but I liked it. ***
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A beautiful champagne which certainly delivers everything you can for when it comes to complexity, integration and balance. The nose exhibits lovely sweet brioche, light toast, baked apples and a very subtle clean sense of mint. The palate is perfectly integrated and balanced acidity with a subdued but still very much alive mousse. A brilliant example of a wine which has aged well. Bravo!
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Alcohol :: 12.5% This is a good wine by its own but today, in such a line up, it is inevitably suffering. A distinctive oxidative note in the line up: copper, metallic sense intermixed with sweet melon and peaches. Medium bodied. This has to have least character among all other. Saline complexity but also quite heavy, long but less energy and the elgance of a BdB by far. It does gain a bit more life with time but just shy to compare with the rest. 87
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Lunch with Anthony Hall and Friends (Coppin Grove, Melbourne, Australia): A nice, if not quite outstanding Blanc des Blancs. It had a slightly oxidative character on the nose, with aromas of over-ripe, almost brown apples along with some briny mineral tones. I expected some flesh on the palate after that, but it was surprisingly bone dry, with a fine, thin mousse and a little minerally streak running through sharp flavours of limes and lemons, with just a hint of appley fruit on the midpalate. This had a nice sense of depth to it, but it still came across as very dry and particularly linear for a 2000 Champagne, especially towards the impressively long and very minerally finish. A very decent wine overall, elegant and with a good bit of character, but without being anything really special at the moment. It is still a bit primary though, so it should continue to improve with age though. On the night, it was be a bit challenging when drank on its own, but made a good companion for fresh oysters.
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Not impressive at all on day 1 but the next day it was great. Very elegant, passion fruit, citrus, a bit of toast, a lot fresher than I expected from the 2000 vintage. Needs a lot of air at it's present stage. Store for 5-6 more years.
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This is a phenomenal bottle of champagne and was drinking gorgeously. Pronounced minerality and acid but still very well balanced, and nice fruit. Fine and persistent mousse. A really great bottle of juice with super-high QPR. I wouldn't even think about opening the 2002 now if his 2000 is drinking so fresh and vibrant now.
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Uncorked for two hours, served chilled. Color: Pale Yellow. Nose: Cantaloupe, Toffee, Toast, Green Apple, Pear. Palate: Cantaloupe, Golden Apple, Pear, Floral notes, Toast. Finish: Medium to Long. Acidity: Medium. Alcohol: 12 % well integrated. Medium bodied mouthfeel with initial cantaloupe and medium mousse. Mid-palate mixes apples and pears transitioning into a floral finish with underlining toast. Very intensive palate and aromas demanding your attention. Drinking beautifully already as 2000 vintage seems to have a tendency for. 92-93 points.
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Really great and mature nose with minerals, baked apples, brioche and toffee. A surprisingly mature nose that resembles that of a 10-20 years older Champagne. On the palate this one is quite young, though. Lots of apples and good acidity but perhaps slightly disappointing. Hard to tell what time will do with it, as the nose is fully mature but the taste shows some potential to develop.
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Christmas WIMPS - Champagne (The Ledbury): An atypical showing for this wine today, initially this was all full on candied fruit, ripe and dense, boarding on a little soupy, unusual. But with time it seemed to calm and become more 'normal', still with some deep raisin flavours, a lighter finish, with some, but light extract an earlier maturing Chetillons based on this bottle.
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Medium straw with slightly coarse bubbles which die a little in the glass. Moderately powerful developing bouquet of apple, chalk and the mandarin/clementine of maturity making entrances and exits over time. Medium full-bodied in a similar state of maturity to the bouquet. Finishes dry and of medium length. Excellent acidity, as is the Peters norm. A middling Speciale in a middling state of development. A couple more years should see this in full bloom when it should be an attractive if not grand little number.
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Didn't enjoy as much as the first time. It's likely that I simply champagnes with some pinot added. All chardonnays have a bit too much lemony flavor for me. The flavors here are very subtle, elegant and enjoyable. Beautiful, small bubbles. Finish was not particularly long. Not yeasty. Not as full-bodied as I thought it was last time. Somewhat lean.
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Maybe the rating is a bit too high. This vintage is not one of my fave vintages. It lacks fruit, acidity and class. But for a 00 this is a nice champagne to enjoy in the sun.
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Dense, toasty with a hint of seared red meat among more usual aromas. Long and intense, but with a rather light body. Like many 2000s, it's lacking a bit of freshness to be a mind blower. Not quite as young as expected, but clearly has an extremely long way to go. I'll save my remaining magnum for at least a decade. Or I'll try at least...
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BYO (My House): Impressively intense green apple nose with yeast and floral notes. Equally impressive palate with plenty of fresh and acidic green apples and freshly baked bread. Huge acidity and overall a very lovely wine!
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Medium yellow color. Intense, fresh nose with citrus fruits, yellow apples, toast and minerals embracing you. Similar fresh and energetic palate with juicy, yellow fruit broadening into toast, butter and nuts on the midpalate, as well as minerals and mushrooms on the finish. Very lively acidity.
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Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline II (28-50, London): En magnum. Some honeysuckle and passionfruit on the nose but seems less open and expressive than the 02. Slightly reductive. Quite clipped through the middle and finish, though this does come back and lengthen with air. ***1/2
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Hare Dinner: Very young, lean and tightly wound. Masses of energy and freshness, but I would have preferred this with a few more years on it, there is more to offer here.
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Did not seemed to have aged much, if at all. Very fresh, very elegant and balanced yet offers a little of everything in minute but noticeable portions. Delicious and finishes really long and savory. Not quite as outwardly expressive nor bold as the Selosse I had the night before, but with some air, the palate spans out nicely. Very appealing. I will try to keep my hands off my other bottles for a couple of years, if I can...
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Fun wine to start with, biscuity with an impression of the yeast remaining to give a roundness to the finish and mouthfeel. Good balance of acidity but not too sharp and sweetness that seems to come from the fruit.
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Tasted blind – Light to medium straw in colour. Beautiful nose of yeasty, mineral, salinity and soft citrus. Much of the same in the palate with a nice toasty note on the finish. Great acidity. This is incredibly delicious now but also very young. I guessed this to be Selosse Initiale. Patience will be rewarded but if you have a few bottles, no harm in trying one now. Excellent. 91+
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Really drinking well, toast, nice fruit. Pale yellow, caramel notes, slight citrus, good focus. Huge hit at Christmas with the wine drinkers in the family.
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A big stone fruit nose with just the right amount of toasty oak. The palette is a big, layered number with lots of oak and a grabbing acidity and lengthy finish. This is a dense and powerful champagne.
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Much better showing than the first time I had this wine. Again it strikes me as very deep-complexioned with some real bottle maturity to it, but this time it just feels more generous - more aromatic, less tightly coiled, and with serious persistence.
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Golden peach in color with fine mousse. Nose of steely minerality, slate, and pear. Consistent on palate with a citric and acid backbone. Long finish of citrus and minerals.
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Davvero molto molto buono, con note fungose al naso e limonose in bocca, ci ha fatto quasi pensare ad un pinot noir ed invece è un bdb. Acido da pulizia.
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From 750 - Same white peach and acidity up front as last bottle. But then it fall off a cliff, again. The mid-palate has this lime and almost hot pepper thing going on, not enjoyable, and the finish is completely hollow except for that strange metallic taste. Antonio's review was from magnum, which is often a different beast when it comes to Champagne. Going to try that format soon, as well as the '02, which is supposed to arrive shortly. I over-rated the last bottle.
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So the Cuvée Spéciale now indicates its vineyard source, Les Chétillons, on the label, which has apparently resulted in a $20 price hike over the 1999. Is it worth it? Well, the 2000 has been getting exceptional reviews despite the vintage being considered relatively weak. But I'm not convinced just yet. This is a very characterful Champagne, but it's more bony, more compressed in on itself, and less immediately likable than any Cuvée Spéciale I can remember going back to 1996. It's surprisingly deep-complexioned for a blanc de blancs and you get more bass notes instead of the typical chardonnay brightness, with a slightly wincing bite of the sour. I have no idea how it will develop, but this is the kind of wine I feel needs to bloom and uncoil from the inside out, rather than evolve in flavor while retaining its same general outlines, if it's going to turn into something really satisfying.
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From 750 - some white peach, lime and piercing acidity. Unfortunately I also got a lot of metallic taste and some burnt popcorn. Next time will try from magnum to see if any variation.
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4/6/2024 - LesChetillons Likes this wine: 90 Points
Great
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2/14/2024 - Nothung Likes this wine: 94 Points
A beautiful lady of a certain age. Probably nearing the end of its (relatively) peak drinking plateau, so drink up. Unfortunately my last bottle. 😢
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11/9/2023 - Jonathan T Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine is still excellent. But the level of enjoyment depends on your palate. If you enjoy aged champagne, it is in a perfect place right now. I personally still want energy and brightness, and I think it has faded a bit from my previous bottle nearly a decade ago. There's no mistaking the Grand Cru pedigree of this champagne though. The Chardonnay base of this Blanc de Blancs is clearly evident with tons of rich lemon meringue, lemon zest. This, and the salty minerality make this a perfect pairing with oysters and chilled or grilled shellfish. I had it with a grilled California spiny lobster and it was an epic pairing. It is definitely starting to show its age though - fewer bubbles, less acid and tension, and secondary notes of a savory mushroom. Regardless of whether you think this is at peak or slightly past prime, I wouldn't hesitate to drink this up!
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12/17/2022 - Lars1974 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Utterly delicious right now! Perfectly matured. Grilled lemons, butterscotch, baked bread, sea-breeze and chalk. Open window for drinking. Will hold for several years.
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12/28/2021 - canan wrote: 91 Points
Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Open and fresh with some yellow apples. For me, it lacks depth and excitement.
A bit "hollow" in the mid-palate and just not very impressive.
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11/1/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Just a great Champagne with sufficient bottle age to show the beautiful characteristics of this site. Crisp with very fine bubbles and a very satisfying, complex finish with notes of minerals and yeasty bread. Slightly oxidized flavors in a good way. Yum and with plenty of life left! At Joomak.
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9/24/2021 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points
Shows some earthy and mushroom oxidation in its flavors. Still very full bodied with plenty of energetic bead. Not as fresh as a magnum from earlier this month.
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9/10/2021 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
Acker Auction BYO (Craft NYC): From magnum. Full, rich, youthful nose of baked apple and biscuit. The palate beams with bright, fresh, energetic fruit. Terrific balance. I didn't know the vintage when initially poured and was guessing 2008+. A a freshly poured glass two hours later was as fresh as the first.
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9/10/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Acker's COVID-Vaccinated BYO Dinner and Auction Simulcast (Craft - New York NY): From magnum. Bright orchard fruit, incredibly fresh for its age. Moderate perceived acidity, great minerally textures, very long finish. Really great now.
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6/10/2021 - DAN BAILEY Does not like this wine:
Noticeably darker colour than the 2000 P2. Very bruised apple nose. A bit underwhelming and quite advanced.
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11/26/2020 - collin wrote:
Last of a case. Drinking very well- has that oxidized baked apple thing going along with strong chalk notes. Deep and rich, but not heavy; satisfying. A fine pairing to scrambled eggs and white truffles.
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11/7/2020 - TXRhoneRanger wrote: 93 Points
Time to drink up. Window is closing. Think of lovely brioche bread with a side of 1er Cru Puligny Montrachet. This is this wine right now. While the wine is still viable, it is losing its plateau of freshness. Really great to drink now, but do drink up soon especially if provenance is not great. Mousse was fading as well. Really fine for its vinosity. Plush.
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10/24/2020 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
This has developed wonderfully. Super bright, sherbety citrus zest. Lovely balance, ripe fruit and a lovely grippy chalk finish. Excellent.
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12/24/2019 - Nothung Likes this wine: 94 Points
A profound champagne. Drinking really well now. Seems to have plenty of life left, but don't think it will improve much beyond where it is now.
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8/22/2019 - Lars1974 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bought at PP in 2009.
Pale gold colour. Perfect now.
Cream, butter and burned sugar. Preserved lemon, bread and saline. Starts to show some age with hints of sherrey.
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7/11/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Ripe, low effervescence. Acquired taste.
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3/30/2019 - EMAZurich Likes this wine: 93 Points
Superfeine, Nase nach reifem Apfel und Birne, es riecht nach Bäckerei. Am Gaumen superfeine Perlage, klarer und fokussierter als der Lamandier-Bernier, präzise Säure, wunderschöne Mineralik. Grossartig!
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1/1/2019 - Roentgen Ray Likes this wine: 94 Points
Purchased at the maison familiale upon release in 2008.
Cellared at 55-63º since.
Beautiful golden hue.
The aromatics jump from the glass.
There was caramel covered Granny Smith, nutty sherry notes, and a bit of Fruity Pebbles in the nose.
In the mouth it is piercingly vibrant, and even a bit bitter on the side.
Complex and terrific.
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7/8/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 Points
From magnum. Very consistent notes to previous bottles. This is good and quite enjoyable. Hopefully these bottles stay at this plateau for some time. It would be interesting to taste from a 750 as from mag these are showing some age (in a good way).
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5/31/2018 - kakpoo wrote: 94 Points
I am surprised to see so many people describing this wine as peaking or close to being over-the-hill. I drank the 2010 and 2008 vintages of this wine recently and this 2000 has much more in common with the '10 and '08 than with an "old" Champagne. I thought this wine was fresh, youthful and vibrant with a scintillating acidity that was almost too intense. The fruit is still primary, and the "oxidative" notes that were present seemed more to be from extended lees aging and very similar to the oxidative notes that are even present in the very young 2010 and 2008 Les Chetillons. If I had another bottle of this 2000, I'd be putting it away for a minimum of 5-7 years before retasting.
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5/20/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 92 Points
Consistent notes. I believe this is better on its own vs other bottles. From magnum. Lemon, coffee, toast, brioche. Still very good but continue to think drink up as its straddling the line of complexity and OTH. Good energy out of the gates but becomes a still wine pretty quickly.
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4/7/2018 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine: 93 Points
Served closer to room temp. This was my first time with the Les Chetillons and I was not disappointed. Very much in the richer yeasty, briochey style of champagne. The nose was fragrant with the smell of rising bread and mornings at the bakery and a touch of burned matchstick. On the palate this was lovely, very open with toasted brioche, honey, a hit of crushed nuts. Based on this experience would like to explore more vintages of this champagne.
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4/7/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker Auction - April 2018 (Marea in NYC): Lovely set of bubbles. Very brioche and toasty. I get an almost salty flavor here as well which is interesting. Smooth wine. Easy to drink.
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4/1/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drink next to a Krug NV from 3L. From magnum. This was a shade darker and had more complexity with more coffee, caramel, toast and less lemon and citurs. Aging nicely. Still has good energy and verve. I would say drink now and over next 5 years in this format. At peak.
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1/1/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. Much fresher and more energetic than the last mag. Light yellow color with precise flavors of toast and brioche along with citrus and yellow fruits. Plenty of acid making this nice and crisp. Great bottle for New Years Eve 2017.
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11/24/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 91 Points
From magnum. Sabred the bottle and lost a couple glasses and a little of the verve. The wine was good with nice lemon notes, yellow fruits, hints of yeasty and bready notes. A little linear and lacking some nuance but still enjoyable and fun.
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9/7/2017 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 93 Points
Similar tasting notes to my last one. Beautifully aged with notes of brioche, honey, nuts, chalk, lemon rind. Superb combination of precision, freshness, tension but also richness. Really beautiful as always.
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8/16/2017 - Tavastgatan wrote: 93 Points
Oysters and Chétillons 2000 is a lovely combo. Actually the Champagne is sublime. Last bottle from a six-pack.
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3/22/2017 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Opened yesterday, brought home the remaining few ounces and left under cork in the fridge. Today, much of the mousse is gone, leaving a beautiful still wine that is redolent of lively Chardonnay flavors. Lemon, apple, and a minerally finish. One other taster mentioned honey in their TN, and I would agree, as that shows a bit here, too. All together, this is quite beautiful, brought to dinner last night by an equally beautiful friend. It's the best wine and friends in this life that make me smile and feel so blessed.
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12/24/2016 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very similar note to my last one but also some additional tertiary notes of honey, a touch of oxidative and nutty, as well as almost saline mineral notes. An amazingly beautiful, fully mature Blanc de Blancs from this fantastic producer. Unfortunately, only one bottle left. I absolutely adore this wine.
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3/5/2016 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful golden straw color. Yeasty dough on the nose. Notes of lemon pound cake, some nuttiness, and very distant honey, which carries over to dominate a long, tasty finish. Really hits my sweet spot for champagne.
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3/5/2016 - BurgAndy wrote:
Fresher bottle than the last. Yellow color, relatively tight mousse. Sherried yellow fruit nose. Mature chard on the palate, with more oxidative notes, baked yellow apple, spice. Blind I would have guessed Selosse. Great showing this evening.
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2/15/2016 - CADomer Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wonderful wine with fantastic balance. Beautiful nose of brioche, poached apples, and iodine. Great verve with intense minerality. Saved one glass for the next day and was not disappointed. Softened and rounded out to give me a little glimpse of where this is going. The future looks very good.
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2/5/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 93 Points
Jacquesson and Selosse lieux-dits (D'Vine Düsseldorf): still very fresh, in the nose nuts, almonds, toast, very difficult in this flight against two selosse wines, but very elegant and concentrated if you give the wine some time, more mineral than "papa", some people guessed the vintage right, some even the village, but it was clear a pure Blanc de blancs 92-93
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1/17/2016 - hajoha wrote: flawed
Sliten flaske dessverre.
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12/31/2015 - BenU Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is a a great mature Blanc de Blancs.
Pale gold in colour and having read the previous reviews I gave it an hour in the decanter which was needed.
After the funk had blown off it was incredibly rounded, not the linear citrus you might expect from a BdB but more hazzelnut, toast, brioche and smokiness even, with a touch of cutrus yes but not pronounced at all with a the taste lingering for a good 40 seconds. A great champagne.
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10/11/2015 - BurgAndy wrote:
Day one -- this was work to taste. A cloying sherried/oxidized note throughout, watery and hollowed midpalate, little fruit, poorly balanced. Really nothing to like aside from the mousse and adequate acid.
Day two -- a nice surprise. The oxidation has essentially disappeared. There is subdued white and yellow fruit, some petrol, some smoke and slate. Vinous harmony. I find myself going back to the bottle again and again to take small tastes -- this is cerebral and contemplative yet enjoyable. But not an easy drinker and will not suit everyone's palate for certain if this bottle is truly representative. First of three bottles -- I'd either decant in the future or give this a few hours of air before tasting.
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7/4/2015 - sfqwino Likes this wine: 92 Points
Great with an hour of air. Bold and assertive. Nicely matured and accentuated by delicious acid and finish. Good now.
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4/26/2015 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very similar to my tasting note dated 10/10/2013. Medium golden color. Small medium-intense mousse. Beautiful aged nose of hazelnut, minerals, some citrus, pear and a touch of smoke, chalk and a touch of brioche. On the palate there are notes of honey, ripe fruit again as well as minerals and some spices. Medium-full body and dense but still feels kind of weightless. Medium bubbles. Medium-high acidity and great length. Absolutely gorgeous Vintage Blanc de Blancs from a fantastic producer. The finesse, freshness and elegance is stunning. I was lucky to drink quite a few bottles of this over the last two years but this was one of the best bottles I have had.
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4/17/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
100%-Merlot themed dinner (The American Club): Blinded. We had this to kickstart our dinner. It had a yeastly, slightly oxidative and somewhat medicinal nose. And this had quite significant palate weight, but balanced with very good minerality & freshness. A lot of power & depth; I'd liked this more if it had been a bit more elegant. Nevertheless, a great drink to start the dinner!
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1/24/2015 - bill00 wrote: 96 Points
Ripe stone fruit, apricot, yeast and just slight mature, oxidative notes. The palate here is just incredible - so much depth and concentration, smooth and creamy and finishes with minerals and the perfect amount of acidity. Perfect spot of maturity where there's some nice development but still so fresh. Loved this.
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10/6/2014 - dpolivy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Light lemon, bread, citrus nose. Full bodied, with weighty mouthfeel. Lemon, minerals, apricot, with a laser like spine of acidity and a mouthwatering finish. Great balance.
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5/23/2014 - christyler Likes this wine: 92 Points
Needed some time to get going - was a little sharp and acidic right out of the gate. Rounded out beautifully after 30 minutes. Probably not the finest Chetillons, but in a great place now.
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5/20/2014 - AtoZ wrote: 93 Points
Needed air. Lots of acid. Maturing. Might improve. Secondary flavors but lots of life. Give it 20-30 minutes. Fleshes out.
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2/14/2014 - Employee500 wrote: 94 Points
Gorgeous, laser-like Champagne. Both rich and clean at the same time.
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1/4/2014 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 96 Points
A total stunner and utterly compelling, the 2000 Cuvée Speciale Les Chetillons is a brilliant wine. The nose is on the verge of showing maturity, but there is still plenty of youth left. The first sniff reveals massive minerals and citrus fruit, soon joined by a soft creamy tone of sweet brioche and light toast. For being a BdB it is incredibly intense and rich, yet elegant. The palate adds very nicely to the overall experience with pleasant mousse and lovely acidity. Rodolphe Péters is moving from clarity to clarity and this effort is among the better ones I have tasted from him. It is a super Champagne!
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1/1/2014 - Mascalese wrote: 93 Points
- Yellow color.
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12/24/2013 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Over four years since I last drank this, and it's as good or even better than I remember. I think some might be hesitant to rate this higher because it is not a tete de cuvee from a big house, but I can honestly say this is right up there with the best bottles of Champagne I've had in my life (and I've had a bunch.) Drained the entire bottle myself, and trust me when I say that doesn't happen very often.
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11/9/2013 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Smoky storm white fruits, rich white peaches and bitter lemon pith. Firm structured white chalky minerals with dab of olive oil. A bit of a sappy finish. Really good.
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11/2/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Champagne and Sushi (Megumi, Sentosa Golf Club): Much better than the last bottle I had earlier in the year. This was a solid champagne, very muscular and assertive – a stark contrast to the ultra-feminine, elegant 1996 Duval-Leroy Femme that preceded it. The nose here really set the tone for the wine, with funky shades of meat and earth, almost sous bois I would say, and then a subtle waft of white fruited aromas wreathed in a smoky, rather peaty scents. About as masculine a bouquet as I have come across on a Champagne. Not bad, but I actually liked the palate rather more. There was a real sense of power and breadth to the wine here, with large-scale flavours of white fruit on an earthy, mineral base. Beneath that, it had a firm structure of good acidity and a solid mousse, and then a long streak of stony mineral at the finish. Big, but yet not chunky, like a well-cut suit on a muscular frame, this was a very solid, well-made wine. While completely different from the prettily elegant Duval-Leroy -where that was all lace, this was solid muscle – I liked this very much in its own right. It was quite a magical pairing with ikura (aka fresh salmon roe) too. This bottle was disgorged in January 2010. While drinking decently well on the night, I think a couple of years more in the cellar will do it a world of good.
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11/2/2013 - Mingmong wrote: 93 Points
Smokey apples on the nose. Roasted apples and ripe yellow fruit. Fresh acidity and lemons. Soft and refreshing. Good stuff
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10/10/2013 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 95 Points
Medium golden color. Small medium-intense mousse. Beautiful aged nose of hazelnut, minerals, some citrus and ripe pear and a touch of smoke and chalk. On the palate there are notes of honey, ripe fruit again as well as minerals and some spices. Medium-full body and dense but without any sense of heavyness. Medium bubbles. Medium-high acidity and great length with a touch of bitterness. Absolutely gorgeous Vintage Blanc de Blancs from a fantastic producer. It's all about finesse, freshness and class, fully mature and stunningly beautiful.
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8/17/2013 - mjf@ulkner wrote: 90 Points
Some secondary notes creeping in- ripe pear, apple. Just a whiff of oxidation. Drinking really well right now, enough remaining acidity and energy to evolve for a few more years
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8/16/2013 - canan wrote: 93 Points
BYO - Erik (Frederiksberg): Nose: Bread, yeast, a little coffee.
Palate: Yellow plums, deep, intense, long acidic aftertaste with a little chicken stock.
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8/8/2013 - gilrbo Likes this wine:
Drunk with company, no formal TN, from memory.
Nose: fresh, with apples and hazelnuts, and just a touch oxydative. Fine.
Even better on the palate: interesting, complex, mature and perfectly integrated. Fantastic freshness.
My first vintage Champagne of this age, so it's hard to judge but I liked it.
***
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6/26/2013 - rnellans wrote: 93 Points
Fresh with hint of apples and some oxidative notes. Good cut and nice mineral notes.
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6/23/2013 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 93 Points
La Paulee 2.0 S.F.: Creamy earthy mousse, slight sherry...to go with the fresh lemon, ginger, tiny sea air bubbles. Quite nice.
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5/31/2013 - robw Likes this wine: 94 Points
Age has been kind to this wine. It is in a very good spot at the moment
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5/30/2013 - Christoffer78 Likes this wine: 95 Points
A beautiful champagne which certainly delivers everything you can for when it comes to complexity, integration and balance. The nose exhibits lovely sweet brioche, light toast, baked apples and a very subtle clean sense of mint. The palate is perfectly integrated and balanced acidity with a subdued but still very much alive mousse. A brilliant example of a wine which has aged well. Bravo!
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3/15/2013 - rnellans wrote: 92 Points
Fresh with hint of apples and some oxidative notes. Good cut and nice mineral notes.
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3/8/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 87 Points
Alcohol :: 12.5%
This is a good wine by its own but today, in such a line up, it is inevitably suffering. A distinctive oxidative note in the line up: copper, metallic sense intermixed with sweet melon and peaches. Medium bodied. This has to have least character among all other. Saline complexity but also quite heavy, long but less energy and the elgance of a BdB by far. It does gain a bit more life with time but just shy to compare with the rest. 87
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2/23/2013 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Lunch with Anthony Hall and Friends (Coppin Grove, Melbourne, Australia): A nice, if not quite outstanding Blanc des Blancs. It had a slightly oxidative character on the nose, with aromas of over-ripe, almost brown apples along with some briny mineral tones. I expected some flesh on the palate after that, but it was surprisingly bone dry, with a fine, thin mousse and a little minerally streak running through sharp flavours of limes and lemons, with just a hint of appley fruit on the midpalate. This had a nice sense of depth to it, but it still came across as very dry and particularly linear for a 2000 Champagne, especially towards the impressively long and very minerally finish. A very decent wine overall, elegant and with a good bit of character, but without being anything really special at the moment. It is still a bit primary though, so it should continue to improve with age though. On the night, it was be a bit challenging when drank on its own, but made a good companion for fresh oysters.
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7/28/2012 - Talisker Likes this wine: 91 Points
Not impressive at all on day 1 but the next day it was great. Very elegant, passion fruit, citrus, a bit of toast, a lot fresher than I expected from the 2000 vintage. Needs a lot of air at it's present stage. Store for 5-6 more years.
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5/5/2012 - WillersC wrote: 91 Points
Very full, wines champagne with greats depth and chalky notes. Delicious and very food friendly. Great at the moment.
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2/18/2012 - NNV wrote: 95 Points
This is a phenomenal bottle of champagne and was drinking gorgeously. Pronounced minerality and acid but still very well balanced, and nice fruit. Fine and persistent mousse. A really great bottle of juice with super-high QPR. I wouldn't even think about opening the 2002 now if his 2000 is drinking so fresh and vibrant now.
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2/17/2012 - lator wrote: 93 Points
Uncorked for two hours, served chilled. Color: Pale Yellow. Nose: Cantaloupe, Toffee, Toast, Green Apple, Pear. Palate: Cantaloupe, Golden Apple, Pear, Floral notes, Toast. Finish: Medium to Long. Acidity: Medium. Alcohol: 12 % well integrated. Medium bodied mouthfeel with initial cantaloupe and medium mousse. Mid-palate mixes apples and pears transitioning into a floral finish with underlining toast. Very intensive palate and aromas demanding your attention. Drinking beautifully already as 2000 vintage seems to have a tendency for. 92-93 points.
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1/14/2012 - mmh wrote: 90 Points
Really great and mature nose with minerals, baked apples, brioche and toffee. A surprisingly mature nose that resembles that of a 10-20 years older Champagne. On the palate this one is quite young, though. Lots of apples and good acidity but perhaps slightly disappointing. Hard to tell what time will do with it, as the nose is fully mature but the taste shows some potential to develop.
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12/14/2011 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Christmas WIMPS - Champagne (The Ledbury): An atypical showing for this wine today, initially this was all full on candied fruit, ripe and dense, boarding on a little soupy, unusual. But with time it seemed to calm and become more 'normal', still with some deep raisin flavours, a lighter finish, with some, but light extract an earlier maturing Chetillons based on this bottle.
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11/29/2011 - TBAFB wrote: 89 Points
Medium straw with slightly coarse bubbles which die a little in the glass. Moderately powerful developing bouquet of apple, chalk and the mandarin/clementine of maturity making entrances and exits over time. Medium full-bodied in a similar state of maturity to the bouquet. Finishes dry and of medium length. Excellent acidity, as is the Peters norm. A middling Speciale in a middling state of development. A couple more years should see this in full bloom when it should be an attractive if not grand little number.
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9/5/2011 - kenthargis wrote: 88 Points
Didn't enjoy as much as the first time. It's likely that I simply champagnes with some pinot added. All chardonnays have a bit too much lemony flavor for me. The flavors here are very subtle, elegant and enjoyable. Beautiful, small bubbles. Finish was not particularly long. Not yeasty. Not as full-bodied as I thought it was last time. Somewhat lean.
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8/5/2011 - St Paul wrote: 92 Points
Maybe the rating is a bit too high. This vintage is not one of my fave vintages. It lacks fruit, acidity and class. But for a 00 this is a nice champagne to enjoy in the sun.
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6/17/2011 - Atreyu wrote: 94 Points
Dense, toasty with a hint of seared red meat among more usual aromas. Long and intense, but with a rather light body. Like many 2000s, it's lacking a bit of freshness to be a mind blower. Not quite as young as expected, but clearly has an extremely long way to go. I'll save my remaining magnum for at least a decade. Or I'll try at least...
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6/16/2011 - canan wrote: 93 Points
BYO (My House): Impressively intense green apple nose with yeast and floral notes.
Equally impressive palate with plenty of fresh and acidic green apples and freshly baked bread.
Huge acidity and overall a very lovely wine!
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6/16/2011 - Terkel wrote: 93 Points
Medium yellow color. Intense, fresh nose with citrus fruits, yellow apples, toast and minerals embracing you. Similar fresh and energetic palate with juicy, yellow fruit broadening into toast, butter and nuts on the midpalate, as well as minerals and mushrooms on the finish. Very lively acidity.
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4/18/2011 - Rechrom wrote: 92 Points
Lemon zest, a bit of toast, wonderful mousse, great balance. Very nice, and youthful still.
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4/16/2011 - EMichels wrote: 91 Points
Toasty apple
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4/11/2011 - SimonG wrote:
Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline II (28-50, London): En magnum. Some honeysuckle and passionfruit on the nose but seems less open and expressive than the 02. Slightly reductive. Quite clipped through the middle and finish, though this does come back and lengthen with air. ***1/2
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3/9/2011 - abh wrote:
Hare Dinner: Very young, lean and tightly wound. Masses of energy and freshness, but I would have preferred this with a few more years on it, there is more to offer here.
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1/30/2011 - sfqwino wrote: 92 Points
Did not seemed to have aged much, if at all. Very fresh, very elegant and balanced yet offers a little of everything in minute but noticeable portions. Delicious and finishes really long and savory. Not quite as outwardly expressive nor bold as the Selosse I had the night before, but with some air, the palate spans out nicely. Very appealing. I will try to keep my hands off my other bottles for a couple of years, if I can...
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1/29/2011 - yenda wrote: 94 Points
excellent wine
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1/13/2011 - madeiradog wrote: 92 Points
Fun wine to start with, biscuity with an impression of the yeast remaining to give a roundness to the finish and mouthfeel. Good balance of acidity but not too sharp and sweetness that seems to come from the fruit.
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12/30/2010 - godx wrote: 91 Points
Tasted blind – Light to medium straw in colour. Beautiful nose of yeasty, mineral, salinity and soft citrus. Much of the same in the palate with a nice toasty note on the finish. Great acidity. This is incredibly delicious now but also very young. I guessed this to be Selosse Initiale. Patience will be rewarded but if you have a few bottles, no harm in trying one now. Excellent. 91+
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12/26/2010 - Rechrom wrote: 93 Points
Really drinking well, toast, nice fruit. Pale yellow, caramel notes, slight citrus, good focus. Huge hit at Christmas with the wine drinkers in the family.
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10/11/2010 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 95 Points
A big stone fruit nose with just the right amount of toasty oak. The palette is a big, layered number with lots of oak and a grabbing acidity and lengthy finish. This is a dense and powerful champagne.
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9/12/2010 - Shorepower wrote:
Bra, inga detaljerade anteckningar men trevligt att dricka nu. Bra BdB som oftast från Pierre Peters
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8/2/2010 - kenthargis wrote: 92 Points
K liked very much. All chardonnay, had a nice richness. A bit pricey, but it is a tete de cuvee. Would get again.
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7/27/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points
Much better showing than the first time I had this wine. Again it strikes me as very deep-complexioned with some real bottle maturity to it, but this time it just feels more generous - more aromatic, less tightly coiled, and with serious persistence.
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7/17/2010 - G Kapoor wrote: 93 Points
Golden peach in color with fine mousse. Nose of steely minerality, slate, and pear. Consistent on palate with a citric and acid backbone. Long finish of citrus and minerals.
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7/11/2010 - G Kapoor wrote: 92 Points
Very nice champagne with good color. Nose and palate of citrus, minerals, ripe pear fruit. The finish with streak of minerality.
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6/13/2010 - Jossik wrote: 89 Points
Davvero molto molto buono, con note fungose al naso e limonose in bocca, ci ha fatto quasi pensare ad un pinot noir ed invece è un bdb. Acido da pulizia.
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3/22/2010 - spacewrangler wrote: 94 Points
Precise and sappy yellow orchard fruits saturate the palate with goodness, this was drinking surprisingly well and was quite open for business.
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3/20/2010 - yenda wrote: 93 Points
impressive, refreshing, youthfull. very well crafted indeed
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2/26/2010 - christopher wish wrote: 94 Points
WOW!
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2/18/2010 - JJL wrote: 86 Points
From 750 - Same white peach and acidity up front as last bottle. But then it fall off a cliff, again. The mid-palate has this lime and almost hot pepper thing going on, not enjoyable, and the finish is completely hollow except for that strange metallic taste. Antonio's review was from magnum, which is often a different beast when it comes to Champagne. Going to try that format soon, as well as the '02, which is supposed to arrive shortly. I over-rated the last bottle.
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1/1/2010 - yenda wrote: 93 Points
still very young but great promises here
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12/24/2009 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 87 Points
So the Cuvée Spéciale now indicates its vineyard source, Les Chétillons, on the label, which has apparently resulted in a $20 price hike over the 1999. Is it worth it? Well, the 2000 has been getting exceptional reviews despite the vintage being considered relatively weak. But I'm not convinced just yet. This is a very characterful Champagne, but it's more bony, more compressed in on itself, and less immediately likable than any Cuvée Spéciale I can remember going back to 1996. It's surprisingly deep-complexioned for a blanc de blancs and you get more bass notes instead of the typical chardonnay brightness, with a slightly wincing bite of the sour. I have no idea how it will develop, but this is the kind of wine I feel needs to bloom and uncoil from the inside out, rather than evolve in flavor while retaining its same general outlines, if it's going to turn into something really satisfying.
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12/23/2009 - Edclr wrote: 94 Points
Blew me away
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9/8/2009 - Russell Faulkner wrote: 92 Points
August 2009 - Holiday Wines (The Charente): Beautifully sour, great promise.
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7/29/2009 - JJL wrote: 90 Points
From 750 - some white peach, lime and piercing acidity. Unfortunately I also got a lot of metallic taste and some burnt popcorn. Next time will try from magnum to see if any variation.
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7/29/2009 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Delicious bottle of Champagne drinking perfectly now. I would drink this every night if I could afford it.
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