2005 Charles Heidsieck Champagne Brut Millésimé

Community Tasting Notes (86) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  3/5/2024 - BiglyBron Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A wine of malted sweet, forward presentation
  
  Initially on the nose; ethereal, bicycle inner tube, brick.
  
  Grass, morning harvest; sunshine captured in wheat, fresh. silage. Earth.
  
  On The tongue; salted barley sugar cane, sherbet; discreet, upright vanilla.
  
  Crystaline. Truly a wonder to ever remember.
  
  Quite a different impression from previous bottle.

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  2/20/2024 - ziggecg Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Quite mature in its layout, but still great balance between fruit, acidity and tertiary aromas. Most likely not getting better from here on, but will probably stay at this level for another 2 years or so.

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  11/18/2023 - JayP Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Again - a very classy wine. Not surprised at how rich it has developed given it is 05 vintage but disgorged in 15. 10 years on lees tells. Having said that, a little like previous recent bottles the taste is going a little flat after initial warm, brioche etc. I think it’s running out of time. So i intend to drink remaining bottles in next 6 months and move on to Magnums

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  8/19/2023 - OneForTheStairs Likes this wine:

  Mature. Brown with surprisingly large, soft, bubbles. Muted nose of caramel, toffee apple. Apples all the way. Long. Enjoyable but perhaps lacking a bit in acidity and in the brioche/lees dimension. Drink up.

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  5/28/2023 - rwpalmer wrote: 87 Points

  Developed colour. Mature nose of vanilla and caramel. Large bubbles. soft and round on the palate, seemingly a bit unbalanced with sweetness and lack of acidity. A reasonable drop for my son's 18th birthday however.

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