NV Ulysse Collin Champagne Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut (2015) 60 mois Les Roises

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  3/17/2024 - Bullethead Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Not as expressive as 2 years ago but remained amazing. I will be eager to see its development in the next 5-10 years.

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  2/16/2024 - ASMB Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Excellent champagne. Very unique. Not quite at level of 2014 Enfers.

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  12/3/2022 - jviz wrote: 98 Points

  Certainly among the more delicious and interesting champagnes I've had this year. This bottle was popped and poured at a restaurant, tasted in Grassl Liberte glasses over a couple hours. The wine clearly had two phases for me, so distinct were they that it would be hard to name them as the same wine!
  
  On opening, this tasted like a typical Ulysse Collin, with lots of ginger, some gala apple, beurre noisette, hazelnut, and meyer lemon. It had all of that midpalate intensity and presence with a lingering finish. Lots of grilled toast and dried fruit flavors. Truly remarkable.
  
  As time goes on (about 2 hours in our case), you begin to get more definitive oxidative qualities, like marshmallow and baked apple. Still with some citrus notes, and once I made the connection, I anchored on to the idea that this tastes like a Lopez de Heredia white with bubbles.
  
  I'm not at all in favor of decanting this wine as you would miss its best moments. Instead, take some time with it in the glass and follow it through its evolution, which for this bottle was rather rapid.

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  11/8/2022 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Ulysse Collin dinner at Shaw's (Chicago, IL): Base 2015 R, disgorged March 2021, No. 109. Initially a bit of a tossup whether I preferred the this or the Enfers; with air, I actually ended up preferring the latter. This has some slight green herbaceousness on the nose, but much of the same, intense bright fruit. However, to me, this didn't pick up quite the same amount of weight as the Enfers, nor did it feel as intensely mineral, so in some sense this was a slightly diluted Enfers. Nonetheless, a very impressive wine and excellent bottle.

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  10/3/2022 - clayfu wrote:

  Now we are talking. Bit of reduction on the nose. Really round sweet subtle apple, yeast and Asian pear. What’s interesting and brings complexity is the savoriness it pulls in on the palate. It screams of oyster brine but that brine is mixed together with Broad fruit on the palate. It’s rounder and more elegant mouthfeel than the enfers. The wine keeps changing significantly with each pour. Decanter really did this wine good. It has that vinous quality that I seek from champagne producers and it does it really well. 🥰

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