Community Tasting Note
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Paul S wrote: 92 points
September 15, 2013 - Asher's 1st Birthday (Alex's place): 60% Chard, 40% Pinot Noir. I really enjoyed this – it was quite a perfect balance of approachable attractiveness and fresh precision. The lovely nose was a promising start, with mushroom, cream and yeasty, biscuity notes floating around a core of red apples and sugarcane aromas. Nicely complex for such a young Champagne. The palate had a nice round fleshiness to it as well, with a fine mousse cosseting orangey tones of ripe mandarins, kumquats and limes on a very appley base. This was all so nicely integrated that it slipped down wonderfully, with each glass finished in record time. It was almost deceptively easy though, for beneath the slightly ripe, round flesh, there was actually a really defined, almost linear backbone to the wine which stretched from the attack, through the midpalate and into the finish where a lovely lick of mineral that stretched on into a long, lingering tail. It may have lacked some depth and scale to be a truly great Champagne, but this was very nice indeed. We were all very taken by it. It has the balance to age pretty nicely in the midterm, but its drinking so nicely now that I would hardly wait unless I had several cases to work my way though.
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Seth Rosenberg commented:
9/29/13, 9:48 AM - Nice review - I thought that this was good value for the money as well. It's not a top-tier champagne, but it costs about 1/2 that of a lot of those ...