2002 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Coeur de Cuvée

• By Antonio Galloni
  Cellar Favorite: 2002 Vilmart & Cie Brut Coeur de Cuvée (May 2023), 5/1/2023, (See more on Vinous...)

  (Vilmart & Cie Brut Coeur de Cuvée Sparkling White) Login and sign up and see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  Champagne 2013: The Spring Preview (May 2013), (See more on Vinous...)

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i-WineReview.com

• Report 34: Champagne Revisited, 12/1/2012, (See more on i-WineReview.com...)

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• By Antonio Galloni
  New Releases from Champagne (Dec 2011), (See more on Vinous...)

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• By Josh Raynolds
  November/December 2011, IWC Issue #159, (See more on Vinous...)

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Champagne Warrior

• By Brad Baker
  September 2011, Issue #12, Champagne Tasting Notes

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Decanter

• By Richard Juhlin
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  (Vilmart & Cie, Coeur de Cuvée, Rilly La Montagne, Champagne, France, White) Login and subscribe to see review text.

RJonWine.com

• By Richard Jennings
  10/18/2011, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

  (Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Coeur de Cuvée) Light lemon yellow color with smallish bubbles; appealing, poached pear, baked apple, light caramel nose; tasty, tart poached pear, light caramel, baked apple palate; medium-plus finish (80% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir; from 50-year-old vines; 7 years on lees)

• By Richard Jennings
  9/26/2011, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

  (Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Coeur de Cuvée) Light yellow color; rich, tart pear, light peach nose; very tasty, unusual, tart peach, juicy palate; medium-plus finish 93+ points

Terry Theise Estate Selections

• By Terry Theise
  2011 Champagne Catalog, 6/1/2011, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Vilmart & Cie "Coeur de Cuvée" Brut) ($153.00) I hope you got some of this already sold out wine. I didn’t! And I’m consumed with self-pity about it. Disgorged 2/10. It has the dosage Laurent and I agreed on a year ago. It also has an ungoldly aroma; Chinese 5-spice, carrots sweating in butter, lemon honey, macadamias, and an edge of white iris freshness that will go truffley in time. The palate makes you wonder how wine gets any better. It has astonishing solidity and yet a zephyr of blossoms float over the high skies, and yet it all comes to some kind of loving accord on the finish, Reggiano and sea-scallops and saffron risotto – yet there’s also a green Chartreuse-y note. Head-shaking. There’s even a flavor of pumpkin pie, and the finish establishes a colony on your palate. By the way, notwithstanding my subjective preference for the galvanic freshness of the 2001, there’s no questioning the massive impact of this wine. It will go the greater distance.