The aromatics on this bottle were still rich and fresh - crushed rocks, white stone fruit, green apples, toast and a light creaminess spring forth once the glass warms up a bit from fridge temp.
The front of palate retains a warm toastiness and initial impact from the richness of the fruits, though certainly nowhere close to the level of a younger UC. A rounded mid-palate green apple acidity slowly transforms into a distinct plummy tartness at the back of the palate. Finish is clean, short and dry.
As the glass warms to room temperature, the fruit clarity drops and the acidity starts getting out of balance with the rest of the wine, so I recommend keeping this at around 50F. Too cold and you lose the beautiful aromatics. Too warm and it starts to fall apart.
I would personally drink this now if I had a bottle - while the palate was still in balance at tasting, this bottle was living at the end of what would likely be its optimal drinking period. Though at 2g/l residual sugar, there is bound to be a lot of bottle variance at this point in aging, so ymmv.
I am usually highly skeptical of aging low dosage grower champagnes based on my past experiences and comments from others, but this one helped me see it in a new light. It preserved a good deal of the rich impact I enjoy from a younger UC while presenting some of its acidity in a more subtle and layered manner.
While I would like to experience this wine again, given the astronomical market price and the uncertainty around a < 2g/l champagne surviving this long, I wouldn't recommend anyone buy it on the open market - there are just so many more great champagne experiences at this price point.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Dinner at Sushi Sato: Disgorged 2013 from base 2009. What a nose! Stewed red apples, almond and touch of sour plum. Outstanding on the palate weighty with ripe yellow fruits and clean with laser acid. Great finish. Drinking very well and expect some upside with age. Truly vinous champagne.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No
/ Comment
Nose of enormous richness, apple, pear then spices, with curry, ginger and cinnamon.
The palate reflects this solar vintage. It's creamy with a dense juice that restores the nose, first with ripe fruit that gives way to a ton of spice. Good balance between richness and acidity. The wine is elegant and well constructed. Saline finish on wet stone but I found the length a little short considering the promising whole and the market value to acquire it.
Excellent but not worth following the soaring prices.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Such a profound cuvee, probably my favorite from Collin. Despite the warm vintage this is a very elegant and subtle wine, wood is so well integrated and let some light orchard and apple notes as well as apparent minerality.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Really Elegant, rich from the vintage, more spice and minerality. More complexity than the Perrieres but not necessarily a better wine. A different expression.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Burgundy Dinner (GC): D/g 07/03/13, 1.7g dosage. Peach, grapefruit, crisp green apple, orange, some spice and white floral notes. The palate is quite fruit rich but the dryness of the palate is also apparent, with the wine compressing though the middle and finding focus. Very fine flavours. Came back for a glass at the end of the night and it was just as good, if not a little better.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Ian A's Palmer @ Trompette (La Trompette, London): Very mineral and tight on the nose. Chalky precision cut through by a sharp blade. Similar on palate. Low dosage. Clearly a statement but I've no handle on whether this will round and mellow with age. *(**1/2)
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Puligny Whites & Vosne-Romanée Reds (Wo Peng): Disgorged 2013. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon colour, fine bubbles, medium effervescence. Nose is clean, medium- intensity, with aromas of toast, citrus lemon-lime, and interestingly - cold tofu. Developing. On the palate, dry, very high acidity, medium alcohol, medium- body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon-lime and lots of minerality. Very long finish. Very good quality champagne. Young now. Give this time.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Not rated as I'm hardly a Champagne person but I like this because it does not have too sharp acidity, probably due to the vintage. Good minerality and not fat. I would like to drink this with more age.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Nice Champagne. It shows light apples, sweetness and lots of mineralic notes. Comparing it to the 'Les Perriers' the 'Les Roises' is the more elegant and less powerful wine. Lots of complexity and a great balance. I think a bit higher dosage would fit this wine well...Now at the beginning of its drinking window.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Small grower Champagne tasting with Munskänkarna, featuring some of the new generation of growers (Stockholm): Powerful nose with citrus, zest, yellow apples, some apple compote, a hint of beeswax and perfume. Very powerful on the palate, with citrus, powerful mineral notes, spice, and good acidity. Rather young, 91+ p. Disgorged 7 March 2013. More power than 2009 Les Pierrières, and a more powerful nose. The reason that I still score it the same as Les Pierrières is that it is somewhat shorter on the palate. For the 2008s, Les Roises came across as more mineral-dominated while 2008 Les Pierrières was the fruity one, so in 2009 the stylistic difference is inverted (and smaller than in 2008).
8/7/2023 - SH Wu wrote: 94 Points
7/3/2013 disgorged, 09 base with 10% from 08.
The aromatics on this bottle were still rich and fresh - crushed rocks, white stone fruit, green apples, toast and a light creaminess spring forth once the glass warms up a bit from fridge temp.
The front of palate retains a warm toastiness and initial impact from the richness of the fruits, though certainly nowhere close to the level of a younger UC. A rounded mid-palate green apple acidity slowly transforms into a distinct plummy tartness at the back of the palate. Finish is clean, short and dry.
As the glass warms to room temperature, the fruit clarity drops and the acidity starts getting out of balance with the rest of the wine, so I recommend keeping this at around 50F. Too cold and you lose the beautiful aromatics. Too warm and it starts to fall apart.
I would personally drink this now if I had a bottle - while the palate was still in balance at tasting, this bottle was living at the end of what would likely be its optimal drinking period. Though at 2g/l residual sugar, there is bound to be a lot of bottle variance at this point in aging, so ymmv.
I am usually highly skeptical of aging low dosage grower champagnes based on my past experiences and comments from others, but this one helped me see it in a new light. It preserved a good deal of the rich impact I enjoy from a younger UC while presenting some of its acidity in a more subtle and layered manner.
While I would like to experience this wine again, given the astronomical market price and the uncertainty around a < 2g/l champagne surviving this long, I wouldn't recommend anyone buy it on the open market - there are just so many more great champagne experiences at this price point.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
3/3/2023 - astroman Likes this wine: 97 Points
Dinner at Sushi Sato: Disgorged 2013 from base 2009. What a nose! Stewed red apples, almond and touch of sour plum. Outstanding on the palate weighty with ripe yellow fruits and clean with laser acid. Great finish. Drinking very well and expect some upside with age. Truly vinous champagne.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
12/31/2022 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 93 Points
dsg 03/2013
Nose of enormous richness, apple, pear then spices, with curry, ginger and cinnamon.
The palate reflects this solar vintage. It's creamy with a dense juice that restores the nose, first with ripe fruit that gives way to a ton of spice. Good balance between richness and acidity. The wine is elegant and well constructed. Saline finish on wet stone but I found the length a little short considering the promising whole and the market value to acquire it.
Excellent but not worth following the soaring prices.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/29/2021 - french16 wrote:
2009/ Disg 7/3/2013
Such a profound cuvee, probably my favorite from Collin. Despite the warm vintage this is a very elegant and subtle wine, wood is so well integrated and let some light orchard and apple notes as well as apparent minerality.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/17/2018 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Really Elegant, rich from the vintage, more spice and minerality. More complexity than the Perrieres but not necessarily a better wine. A different expression.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
12/10/2017 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 93 Points
So konzentriert, so dicht und punktgenau, angenehme reife Früchte, beginnend auf seinem Höhepunkt. 93
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/11/2017 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Burgundy Dinner (GC): D/g 07/03/13, 1.7g dosage. Peach, grapefruit, crisp green apple, orange, some spice and white floral notes. The palate is quite fruit rich but the dryness of the palate is also apparent, with the wine compressing though the middle and finding focus. Very fine flavours. Came back for a glass at the end of the night and it was just as good, if not a little better.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/12/2015 - Paul D wrote:
Chateau Palmer Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Youthful, appley, mineral, quite aggressive mousse, shortish finish.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/12/2015 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points
Ian A's Palmer @ Trompette (La Trompette, London): Very mineral and tight on the nose. Chalky precision cut through by a sharp blade. Similar on palate. Low dosage. Clearly a statement but I've no handle on whether this will round and mellow with age. *(**1/2)
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/11/2014 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points
Puligny Whites & Vosne-Romanée Reds (Wo Peng): Disgorged 2013.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, lemon colour, fine bubbles, medium effervescence.
Nose is clean, medium- intensity, with aromas of toast, citrus lemon-lime, and interestingly - cold tofu. Developing.
On the palate, dry, very high acidity, medium alcohol, medium- body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of citrus lemon-lime and lots of minerality. Very long finish.
Very good quality champagne. Young now. Give this time.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/11/2014 - Dbrane wrote:
Not rated as I'm hardly a Champagne person but I like this because it does not have too sharp acidity, probably due to the vintage. Good minerality and not fat. I would like to drink this with more age.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/6/2014 - Wine_lvr wrote: 92 Points
Nice Champagne. It shows light apples, sweetness and lots of mineralic notes. Comparing it to the 'Les Perriers' the 'Les Roises' is the more elegant and less powerful wine. Lots of complexity and a great balance. I think a bit higher dosage would fit this wine well...Now at the beginning of its drinking window.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
10/14/2013 - Vintomas wrote: 91 Points
Small grower Champagne tasting with Munskänkarna, featuring some of the new generation of growers (Stockholm): Powerful nose with citrus, zest, yellow apples, some apple compote, a hint of beeswax and perfume. Very powerful on the palate, with citrus, powerful mineral notes, spice, and good acidity. Rather young, 91+ p.
Disgorged 7 March 2013.
More power than 2009 Les Pierrières, and a more powerful nose. The reason that I still score it the same as Les Pierrières is that it is somewhat shorter on the palate. For the 2008s, Les Roises came across as more mineral-dominated while 2008 Les Pierrières was the fruity one, so in 2009 the stylistic difference is inverted (and smaller than in 2008).
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (2)