2015 Henri Giraud Coteaux Champenois Cuvée de Croix Courcelles Aÿ

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Derek Darth Taster's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/21/2023 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points

  Late night "casual" at Maison Dakota. Tasted blind. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Bottle 1483.
  Appearance is clear, medium intensity, yellow lemon colour. Thin legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of beeswax honey, citrus lemon, rain on hot stones minerality (?petrichor). Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, low alcohol (10.5%!), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of stony minerality, honeyed beeswax, ripe apple, ripe peaches, steeliness. Long finish.
  Very good quality. Only became more obvious as a Chardonnay on day 2 when some integrated toast oak Chard notes came out. Amazing how was such good fruit ripeness achieved at 10.5% alcohol!?

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Sean Tay's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/10/2023 - Sean Tay wrote: 90 Points

  Medium nose intensity with notes of lemon, pear, apple. Medium+ acidity and medium finish. Price to quality point personally feel many Burgundy whites can offer much more.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Wineallover's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/19/2023 - Wineallover wrote: 92 Points

  Brief notes. First time trying a still wine from champagne and this is really tasting champagne without the bubbles. Stong minerality and high acidity with subtil aromas. Would be interested to try more of those.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View aquacongas's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/17/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 89 Points

  not blind, at the winery
  The nose reminds to Burgundy, in the palate like a Puligny. Good length but missing concentration in the finish, 10,5% alc, around 2000 bottles, too expensive for the quality compared to the big brother. 89

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.