1964 Ruinart Champagne Baron Philippe de Rothschild Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 95 points

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  5/1/2018 - ESTEELE90 Likes this wine:

  Boneyard Fried Chicken and Bubbles with the Boys (Sherman Oaks): At dinner. Brief note. Pours a deep brownish golden yellow in the glass. No effervescence is apparent. On the nose this is beautifully oxidized with a sherried/nutty note and a whiff of toffee. The palate is where this really shines showing tangy lemon, burnt orange peel, caramel, toasted hazelnuts, and very alive and fresh acidity to tie it all together. There is a touch of bubbles on the palate, but just barely there. Finish was long and complex. This was definitely well aged and a sophisticated bottle of bubbles. Lovely

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  4/30/2018 - tcarter Likes this wine: 95 Points

  A rare find and was happy to try. Delicious stuff. Oxidized in the best way a truly great, well-aged champagne can be. Not a bubble to be found in the bottle, but the flavors were on point.

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  11/20/2017 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: flawed

  This was obviously an absolutely terribly stored bottle of wine... like it may have spent some life under water. The foil was all corroded and the cage was completely rusted through. I popped the bottle to no pop, no hiss.. the bottle had no fizz and the cork just slid out. The cork was black. The wine smelled absolutely putrid. We could smell it across the room. We did not even bother tasting it because the thought of that made us almost wretch. We wound up pouring it on a plant outside. When we went outside to leave an hour later it still wreaked of this putrid smell. Update: three months later that plant died, but the other similar plants in the front of the house were fine.
  
  Luckily I have another bottle!... totally different source from the other side of the world, so hopefully it fares better. It certainly looks better!

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  2/27/2016 - fizz wrote:

  Rare Wine Dinners: Bordeaux 1921-1975 (Bentley Restaurant, private dining room): Superb bright golden colour. No mousse. Mushrooms, nuts, salty caramel. Lovely palate intensity, with some residual acidity to keep it clean and fresh. Over the next 20 minutes, it became honeyed and showed oxidative notes. Became more mellow. A great start to the night!

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