1996 Ployez-Jacquemart Champagne Liesse d'Harbonville

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  2/24/2023 - dbkitc wrote: 97 Points

  Whoa. Mature and just singing. Color leans golden. The nose is a small village French bakery at 5:30 AM. Raw yeast, toast, yuzu and plum wine. A hint of Elmer’s glue? Whatever, the palate shows reticent bubbles and yellow plums. Surprising finishing zip is well judged. This is just super. The two whites this evening are an appropriate way to celebrate playing the Northern California golf trilogy that litterally brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion. Rarely does a bucket list deliver…but it sure is fun when it does….(97)

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  6/20/2022 - felixp Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Incredible, everything you would want from a mature champagne.

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  2/26/2022 - fclarity wrote: 92 Points

  Tasting more advanced than previous bottles

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  12/31/2021 - lesz Likes this wine: 95 Points

  delicious.

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  11/25/2021 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Cork came out with just a little pop. Golden color. Gentle bead. Sweet caramel nose, green and yellow apple, brown butter. There's a 96 acid steak I can smell, not sure what the fruit is with it. Some ginger and spice. Delicious on the palate, creamy and zingy maybe some tangerine. Very spicy. This seems bi-level to me with the creamy resolved sweetness and then the blast of acid underneath - but they aren't really together yet. Will see with more air.
  
  Day 2: Out of Conterno Sensory. Part of me was worried that this might fold after opening - based on the mature fruit notes. But no worries - the recorked bottle opened with a bigger pop than day 1, and this is really chugging along - bruised apple and pear, brioche, ginger, cider, and some caramel, brown butter - really bright acid and mineral streak - almost cutting or burning beneath the surface. The palate is integrating. Jesus it is high acid - bruised apples and some other orchard fruits along with searing white hot acidity and a touch of brioche and cider. The acid dominates the finish with bitter lemon peel and some minerals/rocks. Explosive and wicked and maybe a bit caustic, but I really dig it. If you're acid averse - avoid this like the plague. This bottle still isn't as integrated as my last - which showed the citrus and creamsicle thing. A little cream on this would go a long way to moving this to exceptional as it harnessed the acid but no luck at this point. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16.5/20.

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