Bienvenue a Champagne; 4/20/2023-4/29/2023 (Les Crayeres, various restaurants, Les Avises and a many wonderful producers): The story behind this wine was fascinating. Much like ourselves Rodolphe has always really enjoyed old wines and wines that are truly quite old and so he set about to figure out what flavor it was that he found so compelling. He settled on marzipan and so he started thinking about how he could give his wines some of that marzipan style. This is all reserve wine mixed from the best large barrel, best stainless steel tank and best concrete vessel. He hit it right on. Sometimes people mention a flavor and I don’t get it but it’s fully here. A bit more of an evolved style and much easier to drink younger. Hazelnut and almond butter and slightly toasty. Drinks quite well.
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7/29/2023 - malbrecht wrote: 93 Points
Very nice champagne with notes of apples, brioche and decent salinity. Good complexity and fine bubbles.
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6/30/2023 - Bathtub58 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Quick note. Moderate flavors of lemon, mandarin, and a hint of sweetness. Non-champagne drinkers kept coming back to this.
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5/27/2023 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine:
Consumed over two days at the Casita in Pedregal.
Base 18. I really need to lay off these youthful wines.
Enjoyable but not ready IMO.
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4/28/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Bienvenue a Champagne; 4/20/2023-4/29/2023 (Les Crayeres, various restaurants, Les Avises and a many wonderful producers): The story behind this wine was fascinating. Much like ourselves Rodolphe has always really enjoyed old wines and wines that are truly quite old and so he set about to figure out what flavor it was that he found so compelling. He settled on marzipan and so he started thinking about how he could give his wines some of that marzipan style. This is all reserve wine mixed from the best large barrel, best stainless steel tank and best concrete vessel. He hit it right on. Sometimes people mention a flavor and I don’t get it but it’s fully here. A bit more of an evolved style and much easier to drink younger. Hazelnut and almond butter and slightly toasty. Drinks quite well.
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2/12/2023 - Tgood wrote: 93 Points
Grapefruit peel and rind and gingery notes too in an urgent nose - creamy chalky concentrated - outshined a storied Calicab in vinous metrics
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