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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 24 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by KeithAkers on 6/9/2015 & rated 92 points: Tuesdays at TDS: Moncuit Champagne (Table, Donkey, and Stick, Chicago IL): Nose: The nose is refined and showing maturity with honey notes, apples, pears, biscuits, florals, and some brioche.
Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity. There is a layered quality to the feel with apples, brioche, pears, minerals, and some honey tones.
Overall: This is really in its pomp right now. It's at that perfect stage of maturity while having freshness to the tones as well. (4510 views) | | | Tasted by theusualsuspect on 11/9/2013 & rated 93 points: Light on the bubbles - to be expected - very nice on the flavors with plenty of weight. light citrus even yet with the buttery brioche note. Very mouth filling. Impeccably well stored. (5096 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Canuck on 10/19/2013 & rated 91 points: A Small Saturday Night Wine Dinner: Very nice and thoroughly enjoyable champagne. Nose shows a touch of oxidation toffee, caramel, lemon custard, walnuts, and predominantly citrus fruit. Palate repeats the oxidative elements and is a touch sweeter than I usually like with relatively little in the way of perceived acid. Finish is quite long carried on walnuts and toffee. (5719 views) | | | Tasted by Dave Canada on 10/19/2013 & rated 92 points: Golden colour with small persistent bubbles
Nose shows lemon, salted caramel, toffee, butterscotch, minerals, brioche and very subtle tangerine…there are definite oxidative notes which add further complexity
The palate is full with flavours of caramel, biscuit, toffee, preserved lemon, hazelnuts, minerals and lemongrass, lime.
The finish is medium + with pure primary fruit of lemon and lime but augmented with great autolytic character and secondary flavour. Great wine (5113 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 8/18/2011 & rated 90 points: This won't knock you over, but it's a good example of a mature '95. Full body for a blancs de blancs. Not much on the nose, but pleasant enough. Excellent balance, not too acidic. (5671 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 5/29/2011 & rated 93 points: Outstanding showing for this small but famous grower. Finally mature, the wine is exuberent and extroverted. Big waves of croissant on nose and palate. The PN gives it weight and ask - but wait, this is all Chardonnay from Mesnil. Flavorful, dense and very long. (2989 views) | | | Tasted by Madidus on 5/16/2011 & rated 89 points: Tropical fruit, apricot, brioche, toast. Delicious. (2482 views) | | | Tasted by tooch on 11/5/2010 & rated 91 points: Ian's Birthday Dinner - (Cali & Bordeaux: 1975/1990/1995) (Alexandria, VA): Lovely nose of almonds, toast and yeasty notes. Full-bodied wines that seemed quite young despite being from 1995. Good minerality and iron notes on the finish. Very nice way to start the evening. (2907 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 11/5/2010 & rated 91 points: Cali Cabs and Bordeaux at Ian's (Alexandria, VA): nose showed almonds, a bit of petrol and honey. really balanced on the palate: great creaminess, intense acid, powerful flavors of apples, almonds and chalk with a long finish. this wine has miles to go before it sleeps. (2754 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 6/3/2010: Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline (Alex's DML Office): Big, yeasty, meaty nose. Quite robust. A food wine. Lacks elegance but I like it. **** (2508 views) | | | Tasted by Rupert on 6/3/2010: Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline (Alex's office, near Old Street tube): Pongy, fizzy, mouthfilling, deep and oxidative, but the depth more than compensated for the sweatiness, big and exciting (2455 views) | | | Tasted by LeatherPalate on 6/2/2010 & rated 92 points: Nutty,yeasty and citrusy nose. Very fresh and firm on the palate with lemon zest,apples,and yeast.
Young,Fresh,balanced. (2587 views) | | | Tasted by KeithAkers on 5/21/2010 & rated 93 points: Celebrating my 30th birthday with 1990 Bordeaux (Lula Cafe, Chicago IL): nose: real classy and elegant nose of bread, citrus tones, minerals, lemon zest, green apples and bits of almonds. Great depth and polish on the nose as well, very pure and though not young on the nose, it isn't getting into that next gear just yet. There's still a bit of baby fat that can be shed, but the nose is very nice right now
taste: lovely and smooth medium feel with noticeable medium/high acidity as well balanced tones of bread, citrus', white florals, almonds, green apples and some bits of pears. The acidity isn't too much, but it is there
overall: a very classy and beautiful bottle of champagne. Needs a bit more time to fully shed some baby fat, but this was a real lovely wine that is showing well and providing yet another different style to the bubbly flight (3592 views) | | | Tasted by jbrekke on 12/25/2009: Nice combination of citrus/pear and yeast. Well balanced. (2751 views) | | | Tasted by TBAFB on 10/29/2009 & rated 94 points: A nicely developed mid-gold colour, intially with a slightly too frothy and coarse mousse. This soon settled down nicely into a nice steady stream of relatively fine bubbles which lasted well overnight and into the next evening.
A nicely developed and well defined bouquet of sweet tangerine with a quieter backing note of the village typical green walnut which itself became more prominent on day two.
On the palate this really explodes with ripe tangerine with plenty of fine backing acidity. There is a sense of precision here which gives this the elegance of a pirouetting ballerina. The cushiony mousse adds to the effect and extends the finish. Not the most complex wine ever, but a great pleasure to drink in a beautifully light-bodied style.
This appears to have arrived at full maturity all in a rush. An amazing transformation. (1910 views) | | | Tasted by TBAFB on 9/3/2009: A further bottle with oxidative tendencies. Maybe I was lucky with the noted bottle and this cuvé is on the way out. Caveat Emptor. (1881 views) | | | Tasted by cadamson on 6/6/2009 & rated 92 points: This was really good. Medium gold color. Very clean and sharp, lots of apple and citrus. Really special stuff. (2835 views) | | | Tasted by TBAFB on 4/20/2009 & rated 92 points: Light bright gold with nice steady and small bubbled bead. A wonderfully evocative Mesnil nose. It has that wonderfully elastic fresh walnut character so reminiscent of the village and really couldn't be from anywhere else. A nice touch of mineral edging completes this. On the palate this seems sufficiently concentrated to carry the dry and mineral flavours through the mousse which is just a little less good than it appears. It's just a touch coarser than it looks, but this is but a minor distraction to what is a very good wine. Lovely acidity and just a touch of creamy development in a longish finish complete the picture. Far better than the previous two bottles, which have had an oxidative element to them, suggesting that they were on the way out. Score is for this bottle. The two previous bottles would have been in the mid eighties. (1919 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 6/7/2008 & rated 91 points: Essentially identical to the bottle last week. Interesting comparison at Prime 112 with the much screechier '96. This is the one to drink now while waiting for the '96 to settle down. (1964 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 5/24/2008 & rated 91 points: I forgot to make a note right after tastng this, but I can recollect it was remarkably good; developing very well, good energy and lift and gaining in complexity. Very fine with perhaps even better things to come. (1759 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 4/2/2005 & rated 89 points: This is getting better each time I taste it. It's just starting to round off and the acidity is not as aggressive as last year. Frothy and vigorous and quite pale. Youthful fragrance of yeast and wheat. Solid attack and very refreshing if not especially long. The evolution will be interesting to follow as will the comparison with the '96. (2152 views) |
| Pierre Moncuit Producer website
Produttore di le mesnil, chardonnay 100%, non usa fare malolattica se non in alcuni anni parziale quindi una linea piuttosto dura, Se hai provato il millesimato V.V. 96 è uno dei migliori 96 in circolazione, il 99 rispecchia l'annata non eccezionale per lo chardonnay ma diciamo media, meno acidità e meno corpo per certi versi meglio il 2000, il base di moncuit non è molto interessante un prodotto un pò grossolano, a pochi euro di più, invece, la cuvèe delos, è un ottimo rapporto qualità prezzo. Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeFrance Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comChampagne Le Champagne (Le comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne) | Grandes Marques & Maisons de Champagne (Union des Maisons de Champagne)
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Sub-Region:
Champagne - The French region of Champagne (including the cities of Rheims, Épernay, and Aÿ) was the first region in the world to make sparkling wine in any quantity. Today, the name of the region is synonymous with the finest of all sparkling wines, and wine-making traditions of Champagne have become role models for sparkling wine producers, worldwide. Surprisingly, the region of Champagne is now responsible for only one bottle in 12 of all sparkling wine produced. Styles of champagne range in sweetness ranging from an extra brut or brut 0, to the basic brut to demi sec to doux; some houses produce single vintage champagnes and others produce non-vintage (or incorporate wines/grapes of multiple vintages), often to preserve a specific taste; combinations of grape varietals; and colors, including a rosé. There are several sub-appellations, including the Valley of the Marnes river running from Épernay west, Massif de Saint-Thierry north and west of Rheims, Valley of the Ardre, the Mountains of Rheims (between Rheims and Épernay), Côte des Blancs, Côte de Sézanne, and Côte des Bar in the South. Champagne wine only uses three grape varietals (cépages): Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier.Champagne Grand CruChampagne |
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