1996 Lanson Champagne Brut Vintage Collection

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  7/30/2019 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:

  From a magnum. This is very youthful and fresh in comparison to the late '80s 750s I've tried. It's absolutely delicious and lighter in style and I'd recommend 5-10 years of additional age if you own the mag.

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  4/21/2016 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  A blend of Pinot Noir (52%) and Chardonnay (48%). Bottled in 1997, aged for 18 years of the lees, disgorged in January 2016. Dosage 3 g/l.
  
  Pale lime green color. Quite developed and slightly reductive nose with somewhat straightforward aromas of gunpowder smoke, some roasted nuts and a little bit of dusty character. The wine is rich, mineral and lively on the palate with very lean, youthful and bone-dry flavors of steely minerality, tart lemony citrus fruits, some chalk dust, a little bit of apple peel and a hint of leesy yeast. The racy acidity lends tremendous intensity and focus to the wine, while the mousse feels creamy, smooth and very persistent. The finish is steely, lively and crisp with intense and very persistent flavors of tangy salinity, steely minerality, some oyster shell tones, a little bit of key lime and a hint of leesy yeast.
  
  A ridiculously lean, austere and remarkably youthful Champagne from the legendary vintage of 1996. Apparently the wine hasn't really gotten past its disgorgement shock, seeing how low-key it was at the moment - and no wonder, if it has spent some 18 years in a somewhat reductive environment. Based on this taste, the wine still painfully young and in dire need of further aging. However, the wise old saying goes that the longer the wine has been kept on the lees, the faster it will develop after the disgorgement; perhaps this wine doesn't need a decade more despite its lean, youthful style, but only a year or two? Go figure. At least the wine feels like it could easily take on lots of more years - decades even. Somewhat underwhelming at the moment, but I don't doubt the wine will turn into something more impressive if given enough age.

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  9/4/2009 - BradE wrote:

  Light Lumber in Minneapolis: Interesting and well appreciated by most. Drank much more mature than expected for its age, already showing a slight bit of oxidation. Great value.

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  9/3/2009 - Siggy wrote: 89 Points

  Lumber Comes To Minneapolis (La Belle Vie Lounge, Minneapolis): A tasty Champagne showing ripe citrus fruit and nutty flavors. Smoothly textured with nice supporting acidity, this is moderately complex and nicely mature. I would tend towards drinking these up relatively soon.

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  5/13/2006 - Rupert wrote: 88 Points

  Big, powerful, full-flavoured, but lacking elegance

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