This wine is still drinking wonderfully despite being 10 years along. I bought several bottles of this a few years ago and this was the last one in our cellar. Ample effervescence, light straw color, light yeast, low alcohol, medium to light acid. Very good to excellent overall.
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Used to love this wine, pre-2000. Recent vintages have an unclean taint. Not exactly a fault, but still slightly disturbing. Nice gold colour, numerous fine bubbles. Good yeasty character and rich fruit, excellent body, long and complex. Too bad about that unclean finish...
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New Year's Day Long Italian Lunch (Eketahuna, New Zealand): Big bead - very toasty biscuity nose - rich flavour good length and quite crisp - lots of character although the texture is slightly coarser than champagne - the high acid is very racy. Serious bubbly. This is very refreshing - not heavy but has enough weight and complexity to add interest. Blanc de blancs.
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10/22/2016 - schott Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine is still drinking wonderfully despite being 10 years along. I bought several bottles of this a few years ago and this was the last one in our cellar. Ample effervescence, light straw color, light yeast, low alcohol, medium to light acid. Very good to excellent overall.
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6/12/2015 - Dryckesupplevelser Likes this wine: 89 Points
Brödig och citrig doft med äpplen. God kvalitet för att inte vara champagne. Viss mineralitet. Bra.
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5/3/2015 - dalondra Likes this wine: 86 Points
A bit too bubbly. Dry and quite acid.
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3/13/2015 - Barbara B Likes this wine: 89 Points
Used to love this wine, pre-2000. Recent vintages have an unclean taint. Not exactly a fault, but still slightly disturbing. Nice gold colour, numerous fine bubbles. Good yeasty character and rich fruit, excellent body, long and complex. Too bad about that unclean finish...
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1/1/2014 - Marc wrote: 88 Points
New Year's Day Long Italian Lunch (Eketahuna, New Zealand): Big bead - very toasty biscuity nose - rich flavour good length and quite
crisp - lots of character although the texture is slightly coarser
than champagne - the high acid is very racy. Serious bubbly. This is very
refreshing - not heavy but has enough weight and complexity to add
interest. Blanc de blancs.
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