Nose of honey, apricot and a touch of sweet spices.
Magnificent mouthfeel, the juice is creamy with a beautiful maturity which marks a sunny vintage like 2005. We can perhaps blame it for a slight deficit of acidity but the whole is so pleasant, on a jam of apricot, almonds with a zest of wood and spices. There is a rich and exotic side to this pinot blanc, I find the Roses de Jeanne spirit as I had been excited about before before having followed up with a few bottles which had less enthused me. Beautiful finish, vinous and on exotic fruits.
Excellent, I really like La Bolorée.
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Gorgeous champagne. I don’t like 2005 champagne but this is an exception. Still suffers from lack of acidity and mid-palate, but it’s so well made. Probably the finest mousse ever - you can’t even see in the glass (Zalto universal). Supremely elegant with very fine and broad mouthfeel. Just no finish and complexity lacking. Great job in a bad year. Rich - tastes almost blanc de noir but isn’t. Fruity but low dosage. Subtle wood tannins enhance the mouthfeel and help the ageing. Amazing and difficult to score as the pleasure is higher than technical merit. I’d rate 93-94pts but pleasure 96pts. Great with or without food - this was a quaffer with an old Cohiba. No hurry, drink to 2030
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Honey, nutty, pear, spice and lemon. Lovely honeyed flavour, with lifting acid stretching the length, right in the zone for drinking. Great concentration and balance.
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Stunning. I just love Bouchard more and more with every new bottle i taste. This is all about style, finesse, refinement and impeccable balance. nose is hauntingly saline with crisp green apple, citrus, dough, a hint of yest and a touch of exotic fruit which i dont usually get in the normal Chardonnay based bdb's. Palate is perfectly balanced with creamy mousse, more green apple, yellow fruit, wet slate minerality and a hint of green leaf. Totally envelopes your mouth with flavor. Smack down in its perfect drinking window now, but nothing to indicate it will not stay there for another 7 years minimum.
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Short note, tight initially, real citrus with borderline tropical notes. Enveloped the glass, complex fruit with bright kiwi, orange rind and lemon,....elegant and light, what a pleasant surprise
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Christmas & New Year 2011; 12/23/2011-1/2/2012 (Home): Pale colour. Quite a gentle, creamy mousse. Benefited from larger glasses. Mineral, chalky, vinous but with top notes of something more exotic, approaching pineapple, developing over a couple of hours. Some substance here but with a lightness and elegance wrapped around it. Quite intriguing and lovely. ****
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Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Restrained nose with fresh green apple and a light touch of yeast. Full-bodied grapefruit on the palate with a hint of green apple in the background. A medium-long fruity aftertaste with less powerful mousse and a decent acidity. I couldn't really figure out if I liked the style or not but I will just have to taste more :-) Overall a very elegant wine.
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Bryan's Dinner Party Offline (The Ledbury, London): Pale colour. Very rounded. Just a touch of honey on the finish. A wine of depth and interest that somehowmanages to combine weight and a degree of richness with minerality, lightness and freshness. My favourite of this excellent flight. ****1/2
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Samma fantastiska doft som senast men vinet känns som det hänger ihop bättre. Doften är dock det som lyfter det här vinet. Fruktiga aromer , lite pepprighet och en viss mineralitet som saknades i den förra flaskan. Är inte så estatisk som en del kring det här vinet men det är inte på något sätt ett dåligt vin. Tycker dock att hans BdB på chardonnay är betydligt bättre
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Så var man av med den delen av sin livslånga utbildning. Första 100% pinot blanc jag druckit. Doften är fantastisk men vinet är inte riktig balanserat. Ganska hög alkoholhalt. Lite spretigt och känns inte helt balanserat. Kräver lite högre temperatur för att komma till sin rätt
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This was really very good. I'm not a Champagne guy. To me the bubbles get in the way of a prefectly good white Burgundy. Or a fairly poor, very overpriced white Burgundy, which is the case with most of the big Champagne houses. But this was delicious - precise, with rich but suble chardonnay fruit, and nice acidity. Great wine.
12/2/2023 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nose of honey, apricot and a touch of sweet spices.
Magnificent mouthfeel, the juice is creamy with a beautiful maturity which marks a sunny vintage like 2005. We can perhaps blame it for a slight deficit of acidity but the whole is so pleasant, on a jam of apricot, almonds with a zest of wood and spices. There is a rich and exotic side to this pinot blanc, I find the Roses de Jeanne spirit as I had been excited about before before having followed up with a few bottles which had less enthused me. Beautiful finish, vinous and on exotic fruits.
Excellent, I really like La Bolorée.
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10/17/2023 - JulianSkeels Likes this wine: 94 Points
Gorgeous champagne. I don’t like 2005 champagne but this is an exception. Still suffers from lack of acidity and mid-palate, but it’s so well made. Probably the finest mousse ever - you can’t even see in the glass (Zalto universal). Supremely elegant with very fine and broad mouthfeel. Just no finish and complexity lacking. Great job in a bad year. Rich - tastes almost blanc de noir but isn’t. Fruity but low dosage. Subtle wood tannins enhance the mouthfeel and help the ageing. Amazing and difficult to score as the pleasure is higher than technical merit. I’d rate 93-94pts but pleasure 96pts. Great with or without food - this was a quaffer with an old Cohiba. No hurry, drink to 2030
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10/16/2021 - CamWheeler wrote: 94 Points
Honey, nutty, pear, spice and lemon. Lovely honeyed flavour, with lifting acid stretching the length, right in the zone for drinking. Great concentration and balance.
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3/28/2015 - mattias_hansen@hotmail.com Likes this wine: 96 Points
Stunning. I just love Bouchard more and more with every new bottle i taste. This is all about style, finesse, refinement and impeccable balance. nose is hauntingly saline with crisp green apple, citrus, dough, a hint of yest and a touch of exotic fruit which i dont usually get in the normal Chardonnay based bdb's. Palate is perfectly balanced with creamy mousse, more green apple, yellow fruit, wet slate minerality and a hint of green leaf. Totally envelopes your mouth with flavor. Smack down in its perfect drinking window now, but nothing to indicate it will not stay there for another 7 years minimum.
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12/27/2012 - Bill Bucklew wrote: 95 Points
Short note, tight initially, real citrus with borderline tropical notes. Enveloped the glass, complex fruit with bright kiwi, orange rind and lemon,....elegant and light, what a pleasant surprise
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12/31/2011 - SimonG wrote:
Christmas & New Year 2011; 12/23/2011-1/2/2012 (Home): Pale colour. Quite a gentle, creamy mousse. Benefited from larger glasses. Mineral, chalky, vinous but with top notes of something more exotic, approaching pineapple, developing over a couple of hours. Some substance here but with a lightness and elegance wrapped around it. Quite intriguing and lovely. ****
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11/23/2011 - Gary wrote: 100 Points
Ethereal. Unlike any champagne I've had before...
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12/28/2010 - canan wrote: 93 Points
Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Restrained nose with fresh green apple and a light touch of yeast.
Full-bodied grapefruit on the palate with a hint of green apple in the background. A medium-long fruity aftertaste with less powerful mousse and a decent acidity.
I couldn't really figure out if I liked the style or not but I will just have to taste more :-)
Overall a very elegant wine.
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7/7/2010 - SimonG wrote:
Bryan's Dinner Party Offline (The Ledbury, London): Pale colour. Very rounded. Just a touch of honey on the finish. A wine of depth and interest that somehowmanages to combine weight and a degree of richness with minerality, lightness and freshness. My favourite of this excellent flight. ****1/2
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3/21/2010 - Shorepower wrote:
Samma fantastiska doft som senast men vinet känns som det hänger ihop bättre. Doften är dock det som lyfter det här vinet. Fruktiga aromer , lite pepprighet och en viss mineralitet som saknades i den förra flaskan. Är inte så estatisk som en del kring det här vinet men det är inte på något sätt ett dåligt vin. Tycker dock att hans BdB på chardonnay är betydligt bättre
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2/21/2010 - Shorepower wrote:
Så var man av med den delen av sin livslånga utbildning. Första 100% pinot blanc jag druckit. Doften är fantastisk men vinet är inte riktig balanserat. Ganska hög alkoholhalt. Lite spretigt och känns inte helt balanserat. Kräver lite högre temperatur för att komma till sin rätt
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2/3/2010 - herberto wrote: 94 Points
This was really very good. I'm not a Champagne guy. To me the bubbles get in the way of a prefectly good white Burgundy. Or a fairly poor, very overpriced white Burgundy, which is the case with most of the big Champagne houses. But this was delicious - precise, with rich but suble chardonnay fruit, and nice acidity. Great wine.
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