1/2018 disgorgement. Special wine from a wood case 3 pack with 02&04.
This was soooo bright and clean it’s impossible to believe this is 20 years old. Piercing acidity. This was open for 3 days and was the best on the 3rd. Hardly any of that nutty brioche flavor, this was all about lemon zest and bright flavors.
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Welcoming Adam to Singapore (Luke's Oyster Bar, Gemmil Road, Singapore): This was a nice Champagne. Disgorged on 22/2/2010, it had a very developed nose for such a young Champagne, with lovely appley scents soaked through with yeast, earthy notes, with some mineral and slightly dried flowery accents. Really nice. The palate was marked by very bright acidity and a nice streak of minerality washing through a solid core of apple fruit. The bubbles had gone down, leaving a hint of the finest mousse in a creamily textured mouthfeel before a long, minerally finish wound its way out with a touch of oyster shell and a bit of citrus. Unsurprisingly, this was wonderful with the fresh-shucked oysters we had. A nice Champagne, although given the rich weight and fruit forwardness, I would never have guessed this as an extra brut with zero dosage.
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(René Geoffroy Millésime Extra Brut) ($122.00) 30% PN and 70% Chardonnay, all done in cask, no malo, no cold-stabilizing, no filtration, one fining. I have to say this is the best bone-dry Champagne I’ve tasted; it has a tremendous swell of inside-sweetness; it’s an overall crescendo in fact, of authority and delineation, of solid yet slippery length; very sweet brioche, and San Daniele prosciutto over a silvery gurgle of spring-water freshness. It was equally and differently good with ten grams of RS; you taste the wood more, and it’s a wee bit less fresh overall, but still wonderful. Then going back to zero (which usually puts the hurt on your palate) and zero still works. Now it’s a year later and the wine was bottled with 2 g.l. RS. It’s as profound as a very dry wood-aged Chamnpagne can be; has a feel between great bottles of Tarlant and those late-disgorged Jacquessons; magnificently smoky, mossy, sorrel-y; it tastes like the label looks – platinum on black, without the “coloring” of sweetness. It’s a country gentleman living a life of gravitas and kindness. He doesn’t say he loves you but you know he does. It will be disgorged in April and sold in October. I saw a prototype disgorged 2/10 with 2g rs, and the greatness of the vintage is clear. I pleaded for more rs, not a lot, somewhere between 7 and 10, as befits a grand vintage meant to be laid down. But this is contrary to the zeitgeist, in which the words “Extra Brut” are seen as a marker of Great Seriousness. Whereas what they too often signify is a lost opportunity, taking what might have been actually great Champagne and eviscerating it into something merely admirable and dour.
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2/1/2021 - Dalex Likes this wine: 92 Points
1/2018 disgorgement. Special wine from a wood case 3 pack with 02&04.
This was soooo bright and clean it’s impossible to believe this is 20 years old. Piercing acidity. This was open for 3 days and was the best on the 3rd. Hardly any of that nutty brioche flavor, this was all about lemon zest and bright flavors.
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6/14/2011 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Welcoming Adam to Singapore (Luke's Oyster Bar, Gemmil Road, Singapore): This was a nice Champagne. Disgorged on 22/2/2010, it had a very developed nose for such a young Champagne, with lovely appley scents soaked through with yeast, earthy notes, with some mineral and slightly dried flowery accents. Really nice. The palate was marked by very bright acidity and a nice streak of minerality washing through a solid core of apple fruit. The bubbles had gone down, leaving a hint of the finest mousse in a creamily textured mouthfeel before a long, minerally finish wound its way out with a touch of oyster shell and a bit of citrus. Unsurprisingly, this was wonderful with the fresh-shucked oysters we had. A nice Champagne, although given the rich weight and fruit forwardness, I would never have guessed this as an extra brut with zero dosage.
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6/14/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 92 Points
Very nice developed nose, some floral orange peel notes. Vibrant fresh elegant mandarin orange and grapefruit. Very nice finish
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4/25/2010 - Le Vin wrote: 79 Points
Will just say that it really does not compare to the Moet et Chandon 2000.
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