Community Tasting Note
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drdebs Likes this wine: 95 points
September 26, 2013 - This wine is one that invites profanity. It is hard, if you haven't tasted it, to resist uttering a string of four-letter words, most of which are due to amazement and the certain sense that much of the Champagne you will drink afterwards (including subsequent bottles of Cristal...) will not measure up. This was my second taste of Cristal, but my first bottle. Had it with a first-timer friend and so was reminded of that breathtaking experience. Have to say this was equally breathtaking. Brioche dough just rises from the bottle and glass, the taste is peach/apricot at first. Notes of fraises de bois come into the aroma and palate as it opens. Fabulous combination of precise bead and frothy mousse. And the finish. Oh, the finish. I'd forgotten that unbelievable persistence. Not cheap but honestly, it's one of the few wines that is worth the freight at this price. A splurge? Absolutely. Worth it? Yes.
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Champagneinhand commented:
9/26/13, 6:37 PM - We just drank our final bottle of 1999 Cristal last Thursday. We shared with friends in Charleston. They were pretty impressed and last year I brought '90 DP and Bollinger RD. Cristal is my wife's favorite, as she says is slides so elegantly down the throat. I am really looking forward to a bottle of 2004, but have been holding off. I think I will open a bottle as it does sound pretty good right now. Will hold more as they do get better with some cellar age.