NV Tarlant Champagne Cuvée Louis Extra Brut 96-00 Disgorged 2016

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  5/17/2021 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 89 Points

  15 years on lees then hidden away in a bottle shop for another 5 so ancien champagne my friends. Disconcerting dark yellow but with still very good mousse. Advance bouquet of hazelnut, grilled peach , something sherry like (hint of palo cortado). On the palate grilled fruits, a hint of mead, lots of spice (tumeric and saffron hints strangely). This is certainly advanced and a drink up proposition but it did grow younger as it sat in the glass interestingly. So this is what old zero dosage goes like. One need to accept it as a departure to the other 98% of what champagne tastes like but it was sound and stood on it's own in its own way. We drank the bottle with ease which is the ultimate test of course. Bottle variation at 21 years is likely to be extreme so caveat emptor. Can't wax as lyrical as Tyson Stelzer on this but he does get to taste the best bottles straight out of the chalk cellars of course.

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  4/5/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine:

  Compared to my first drink from this case last year, here the taste of the barrel is more evident. Cured lemon mash. Resin. Its thrilling mineral spine is pale and brittle. Salty, fleur de sel, with little peppery herbaceous plumes gathered around a twiggy canopy. Intense.

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  4/14/2020 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 96 Points

  When a dream is a deal, when shoes shuffle to walk, test this diagnosis: Low on Champagne Syndrome. After pouring, and before tasting, I set the glass on the table and looked away. That is when I noticed something unusual: the sound of the wine. The very slow pace of gas escaping solution in the drink created a unique sound, like a low, voiceless hum. The experience was so startling that I'm afraid my analysis will amount to a confession of my own fragility. The color was saturated with gold and bronze. The texture was broth, animated with deliberately punctuated gasps of CO₂. Flavors suggested nutty, brined lemon custard/marmalade brulée, and robust archival herbs. Substantial mineral sensations were tumbled and glycerin-rich.

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