I would suggest this has started to enter the next phase, the slow ebbing of the primary fruit characteristic. But still a lot of time before that happens with any fortitude. The fizz has started to lose its attack and is beginning to mellow. The nose is starting to develop a butteriness that wasn’t there a year and a half ago when last I opened.
I won’t open my next bottle for five, maybe ten years. I want to see what this ‘08 will do. I feel that it has only just begun to hint at its potential.
A great bottle of wine from a majestic vintage.
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Totally agree with Graeme. Meh. Nothing in this you don’t get from a £12 bottle of Cremant. Not worth the extra Pennies. And the bottle is visually boring.
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2021 Bread & Butter Pinot Noir
1/7/2024 - BottleOfPlonk Likes this wine: 89 Points
Voluminous. Terrific. Value for money. Moreish and made to be drunk young. Knock it back with some cheese.
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2008 Laurent-Perrier Champagne Brut Millésimé
1/7/2024 - BottleOfPlonk Likes this wine: 91 Points
I would suggest this has started to enter the next phase, the slow ebbing of the primary fruit characteristic. But still a lot of time before that happens with any fortitude. The fizz has started to lose its attack and is beginning to mellow. The nose is starting to develop a butteriness that wasn’t there a year and a half ago when last I opened.
I won’t open my next bottle for five, maybe ten years. I want to see what this ‘08 will do. I feel that it has only just begun to hint at its potential.
A great bottle of wine from a majestic vintage.
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NV Petaluma Croser Adelaide Hills
1/7/2024 - BottleOfPlonk wrote: 80 Points
Totally agree with Graeme. Meh. Nothing in this you don’t get from a £12 bottle of Cremant. Not worth the extra Pennies. And the bottle is visually boring.
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