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Grand Champagne Tasting
The Wine Club, San Francisco
Tasted Thursday, December 4, 2014 by drwine2001 with 625 views
Flight 1 - Non-Vintage (7 Notes)
Flight 2 - Vintage (9 Notes)
2002 Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Cuvée Rare
France, Champagne
Sulfury nose with yeastiness. Dry and medium bodied. The sulfur makes it hard to assess.
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1999 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart
France, Champagne
Some brioche. Lovely balance and length. Very youthful for 15 year old wine-no mature notes. Dry, excellent stony finish. One of my favorites tonight.
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2002 Delamotte Champagne Blanc de Blancs Millésimé
France, Champagne
Frothy. Sweeter entry but nice dry finish. Some mature Champagne notes.
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1998 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Flawed
France, Champagne
I'll give this bottle the benefit of the doubt and say it was off-full of sulfur and caramel flavors. No.
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2007 Benoît Lahaye Champagne Grand Cru Millésime Extra Brut
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
Light color, moderate mousse. Serious, dry flavors. This is very good.
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2007 Agrapart Champagne Grand Cru Minéral Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
Stony aromatics. Light, lemony, very dry. This is also very good.
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2002 Pommery Champagne Cuvée Louise Brut
France, Champagne
Lively mousse. Bright citrus fruit, some freshly baked bread. Nice, elegant feel, dry finish.
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2002 Ruinart Champagne Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs
France, Champagne
Magnum. Pale green. Sulfur and yeast. Unfortunately, this was so marked by sulfur that the flavors were clipped and stunted.
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2006 Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut
France, Champagne
Elegant, well balanced, medium dosage, good texture, long, powerful finish. Outstanding bottle.
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Flight 3 - Rose (4 Notes)
NV Stéphane Coquillette Champagne Brut Rosé
France, Champagne
Bright pink, full bodied, coarse and commercial.
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NV Henri Goutorbe Champagne Grand Cru Brut Rosé
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
Salmon colored. Elegant with fine, subtle faded red fruit. By far the best of the 3 Goutorbe wines tonight.
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NV Delamotte Champagne Brut Rosé
France, Champagne
Light pink. Unpleasingly harsh and bitter.
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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Rosé
France, Champagne
Medium pink. Black fruit and strong minerality. Serious and fine.
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NV Ruppert-Leroy Champagne Brut Nature Fosse-Grely
France, Champagne
Light, dry, and austere.
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NV Ruppert-Leroy Pinot Noir Champagne Brut Nature Les Cognaux
France, Champagne
Serious, full, dry Pinot-based wine. Very good. I liked both wines from this producer who is previously unknown to me.
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NV Bérêche et Fils Champagne Brut Réserve
France, Champagne
Rather bland and neutral. Not much of an impression at all.
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NV Bérêche et Fils Champagne Premier Cru Côte
France, Champagne, Champagne Premier Cru
A big step up from the Brut Reserve. Finer, lively acidity, good minerality. Excellent.
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NV Henri Goutorbe Champagne Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut
France, Champagne, Champagne Premier Cru
Easygoing, higher dosage, gingery flavors.
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NV Henri Goutorbe Champagne Cuvée Prestige
France, Champagne
Fuller bodied, moderate dosage. Black fruit, drier finish. Again, pretty crowd pleasing style like the Blanc de Blancs.
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NV Laurent-Perrier Champagne Grand Siecle
France, Champagne
Yeasty nose, noticeably sweet. Just not that focused or distinguished in any way.
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