2006 Françoise Bedel Champagne L'âme de la Terre

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 93 points

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  2/21/2022 - assaggi Likes this wine: 95 Points

  90% Meunier, 5 % Chardonnay and 5% Pinot Noir. 13 years on the lees, degorged January 2021
  Needs either to be decanted or open well in advance. The nose at fist is extremely savoury, with beef stock, oxo cubes, braised mushrooms and oxidised maderia. Not an aperitif champagne. With time mellows, the savoury notes soften, a bit of apple/bruised apple, apple salt caramel, just enough acidity from the chardonnay.This is a big, powerful champagne that needs some aging. Excellent.

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  1/14/2022 - Peech Likes this wine: 91 Points

  oxidized and caramelized. Pretty nice.

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  12/11/2021 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Alex's 40th Birthday (Alex and Fiona's in AMK): This was very nice indeed. The nose showed a lovely blush of strawberries and apples, yeast and brioche, then flowers and spice, all with a little earthy, minerally note running behind. A complex, giving nose, with just a little secondary note of caramel and honey starting to emerge. Alluring stuff. The palate was quite lovely too, with a spine of flinty mineral and bright acidity, along with some still quite sprightly mousse, running though otherwise generously yummy flavours of apples and strawberries, some stony mineral and just a little hint of spice, all these laced with a hint of citrus lemon at the finish. A really bright, brisk, delicious Champagne, just starting to really come into its own. I enjoyed this tremendously.

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