2017 Marguet Champagne Grand Cru Les Bermonts

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 94 points

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  4/22/2024 - Coastalnative wrote:

  Honestly I find these wines quite odd. I'm not sure I can totally get behind them. They are unique but always have what I can only describe as an 'interesting' non- traditional profile. Almost a sous-voile, sherry thing going on. It's not an off bottle either because I've had these before. Doesn't strike me as something from Ambonnay either.
  
  Don't get me wrong, it is a good wine for sure. There is good structure. Perhaps a bit too lean for my liking. I don't know, I just don't seem to get it maybe.

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  1/4/2024 - csimm wrote: 95 Points

  A super solid showing, and though perhaps a slight step behind in complexity to a recently sampled Le Parc (2018), this 2017 Bermonts is a worthy sibling indeed. Linear and a bit strict on first pull, with chalk and mineral elements constricting the predominant lemon juice note, the Bermonts needs air to enable flavors of lime, unripe green and yellow pear, smokey sea salt, white travertine, and yellow apple elements to emerge. Finishes with a firm but sophisticated focus.
  
  A bit less interesting overall than the 2018 Le Parc, but more refined and honed than both Le Parc and Crayeres (2018), the Bermonts in 2017 is a Champagne that could use a little time (not a lot) in bottle to develop some girth and layering. That aside, this is a fantastic showing.
  
  2017 vintage. 100% Chardonnay. Tirage: July 18, 2018. Disgorgement: March 2022. Dosage: 0g/L. 1571 bottles. Sulfites: 26mg/L. 12.5% alcohol.

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  9/15/2023 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  March 2022 disgorgement. 100% Chard. A beauty. Pure lemon, green apple, mineral and clean. Some old wood, lime peel in the finish. Yum!

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  10/15/2022 - r.o.man Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The journey never ends. This wine is still on the beginning. Beautifuly smoky, balsamic and fruity. Youthful and rich, grippy, salty minerality. Compact, pure with neverending finish. Loaded with energy and freshness. Another masterpiece by Benoit Marguet.

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