Visit to Champagne Drappier in Urville

A Côte des Bar producer and a medium-sized Champagne house with a high proportion of Pinot Noir in their vineyards.

• NV Drappier Champagne Carte d'Or Brut 86 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Noticeably apply with winter apples, bread, some spice. Pinot-style nose.
  Palate: Fruity, some dosage that gives a somewhat sweetish impression, spice, red and yellow apple with winter apples, a hint of bitterness in the aftertaste.
  Summary: Pleasant aromas, approachable now, 86 p.

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• NV Drappier Champagne Brut Nature Dosage Zero 87 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Red apples, some perfume, a certain elegance.
  Palate: Apply with some citrus, rather good concentration, dry, good acidity, some spice, mineral.
  Summary: Rather young, but approachable now, 87 p.
  I usually find this to be further above Carte d'Or than the single point difference they got this time.

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• 2006 Drappier Champagne Brut Millésimé Exception 89 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Ripe yellow and red apples, some spice, a hint of cocoa powder.
  Palate: Fruit, good concentration, yellow and red apple, good acidity, spice.
  Summary: Pinot Noir-dominated style. Rather young, but approachable now, 89 p.

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• 2005 Drappier Champagne Grande Sendrée 91 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Ripe yellow and red apples, cocoa powder, some spice, slightly flowery.
  Palate: Mineral, yellow apple, citrus, rather high acidity, fresh impression, slightly spicy, good aftertaste, foody style.
  Summary: Some hot vintage character. Rather young, 91(+) p
  More mineral than the 2006 Exception, but slightly similar in the nose.

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• NV Drappier Champagne Brut Rosé 86 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Strawberries including wild strawberries, some citrus, slightly sweetish impression, slightly flowery.
  Palate: Fruity, gives an impression of some dosage sweetness, red apples, wild strawberries, good acidity, hints of spice, fresh aftertaste.
  Summary: 86 p
  Just as with Carte d'Or, the impression is a bit on the sweetish side, but the fresh aftertaste is a bonus.

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• 2005 Drappier Champagne Grande Sendrée Rosé 90 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Wild strawberries, slightly developed Pinot Noir notes, baked apples, discrete flowery notes.
  Palate: Strawberries including wild strawberries, apple, some sweetness of fruit in the attack, mineral on the mid-palate, fresh aftertaste.
  Summary: Rather young, but approachable now, 90 p.
  This rosé felt a bit more developed than the white 2005 Grande Sendrée.

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• NV Drappier Champagne Quattuor IV - Blanc de Quatre Blancs 89 Points

  France, Champagne

  Nose: Yellow apples, some waxed apple, slightly spicy, a tiny hint of honey, and discretely aromatic.
  Palate: Good concentration, yellow apples, some baked apples and honey, a quite good mineral note, rather high acidity.
  Summary: Rather approachable now, but can probably be kept, 89 p.
  An unusually good Quattuor, with more mineral than usual.

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• 1992 Drappier Champagne Carte d'Or Brut 89 Points

  France, Champagne

  Appearance: Dark golden colour, with some amber hue.
  Nose: Noticeable oxidative notes with winter apples, spice, typical old Champagne aromas.
  Palate: Sweetness of fruit in the attack, winter apples and baked apples, spice, balancing acidity, fresh tasting.
  Summary: Wonderfully developed, fresher on the palate than in the nose. Fully developed, should probably not be kept for any longer period of time, 89 p.
  Disgorged January 2013.

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