Community Tasting Note
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Eudemis Likes this wine:
December 12, 2020 - 12% alcohol. PN 60%, C 25%, PM 15% according to the website. Dosage 8-9 g/L. No info on disgorgement date (although this might be inferred from the lot number if you have the patience), but this bottle has been in my cellar for a couple of years at least. Pale golden colour.
The fizz is fine and quite abundant initially, but that does not last very long; indeed this bottle goes flat much faster than most. The nose is rich and mature with yellow fruit in evidence. Certainly very comfortable in the mouth, partly due to the generous dosage, but not in any way clumsy. Yellow plum, and with just a hint of an oxidative sensation contributing to the richness (in a good way).
A reliable NV Champagne, very consensual and certainly well made. A repeat purchase so long as the price remains reasonable (ie well short of 40€).
PS: after two days in the fridge (closed with an ordinary cork), the wine has not lost any of its qualities, and the fizz level is more than creditable.2 people found this helpful 8,837 views
2 Comments
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Brentw1 commented:
12/12/20, 12:08 PM - Just for anyone interested.
Disgorgement dates are not stamped on non-vintage bottles (they are on the vintage wines). Labelling occurs shortly after disgorgement, so the labelling date provides a good indication. The first two digits of the labelling code on the neck of Special Cuvée and Rosé are the year and the next three digits are the number of the day of that year, so L1405002 means the 50th day of 2014. The letter on the cork is the month of disgorgement and the number is the year, so 4A is January 2014. -
Eudemis commented:
12/12/20, 12:39 PM - Thank you, this is very useful. What a cryptic way of recording the info!
Following the decoding procedure that you indicated, I find that my bottle was disgorged in May 2018 and labelled in February 2019, so I must have acquired it a good bit more recently than I thought.