A private dinner (Restaurant Pastorale **, Reet, Belgium): A very rare beast, an undisgorged Champagne, 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay (Avize, Oger, Cramant). Very unusual flavour profile too, starts out very yeasty, beery even, with estery fruit, then shows more focus on freshness, minerality and tight lemon fruit, hint of rye bread. Most instructive and very pleasant (in its way).
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3/7/2015 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points
A private dinner (Restaurant Pastorale **, Reet, Belgium): A very rare beast, an undisgorged Champagne, 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay (Avize, Oger, Cramant). Very unusual flavour profile too, starts out very yeasty, beery even, with estery fruit, then shows more focus on freshness, minerality and tight lemon fruit, hint of rye bread. Most instructive and very pleasant (in its way).
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