November 2020 disgorgement. Went back for several small pours of this over the course of the evening, at varying temperatures, too. I got a real good look at this bottle. Pink grapefruit, orange zest and bergamot, which are all descriptors I would not normally attach to Vilmart but they're here for me. Intense finish of concentrated lime that sits in a mineral blanket. When the wine was at 67f and had a lot of air, I got an apple pie filling and pastry note. I'm really liking the wine, and yeah it's expensive but there is a real distinction here in the house style that comes through and I'd recommend this wine to any committed Vilmart fan to try, to share.

Disgorged July 2021. Is it me or is this cuvee seeing shorter sur latte time? I had thought these were typically 4 years after tirage? Doing the math here, this is only about 2 years? Hmm. I'm a devoted drinker of this cuvee and have been for a decade so was eager to see how the warmer year would reflect. Of note, and I wasn't begging the outcome, there is some austerity here. Grapefruit, lime peel and even some cranberry. Cranberry? Yes, I swear it's here. And yes, the expected tangerine and apple is also here. With air, this does add some richness, so the apple has some caramel on it, and some orange emerges, along with pineapple. But still the tension of the earlier tastes remains, the tarter edge, which I do like a lot. Man, the last few vintages of GCdO (notably 2016 and 2017) have all for me shows some cool edges.

November 2021 disgorgement. Haven't tasted this wine since I was at the domaine way back in 2022. I thought the wine at that time was more solar, reflective of the vintage. So I decided to pick up another and revisit, serving it last night for the holiday meal. There is a liquified green apple and jasmine flower that really frame the core of the wine, finishing with a lemon peel and ginger. Later when I let the chill fade off the wine, there is even more expressiveness, giving the finish a refreshing, slatey feel. And finally with more air, some mango comes into the wine. I do now see the wine as more complex then the bottle in 2022.

November 2022 disgorgement. Served blind, and my guess at this was aided by both the color of the wine and the clear glass bottle. So, I had a few clues, but even so, the wine shows dead on for what this cuvee often does so well: reflect fruit, acid and pleasure. Watermelon, blood orange, lime and maraschino cherry. It's hard to think of a better value Rose in Champagne, across so many disgorgements over time. Love this stuff.

May 2022 disgorgement. There is a concentration and balance here, and I thought the no dose style was pretty well hidden behind the way this wine was built. The fruit? Apple, black fruit and stone. I found with air that the power and intensity increased, and I just wish I would have went back for some more tastes over the evening, and given the reaction to the wine, the bottle was finished pretty quickly.

Enjoyed this, and it was a good palate calibrator given all the Champagnes we arrayed with it. Seemed like it had a pear signature, playing alongside a little petrol/diesel. Juicy with good acid.

Opened last night. We left the bottle on the counter without the cork and heck, there's about an ounce in the bottle so just enough for a note this afternoon! Consuming without food, temp of wine is 67f. A faint hint of heat, what sometimes I would call soapy in aroma. In addition, something floral, like a lavender. Fruit gives me an impression of dark raspberry and blueberry, and what I really notice is cranberry which is how the acidity translates for me, a red-tinged acid. Of note is the fruit concentration here, and there is a feel on my tongue of a wet stone from the structure. This is a deeply flavored wine, with an edge from the acid that gives it something special. Very good.