Community Tasting Notes 6

• aquacongas Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 5, 2019 - 2nd Champagne Club; 11/4/2019-11/5/2019 (Les Crayeres Reims): Blind, Magnum
  a bit sweet, I guessed 1995, Thomas 88, for me Millesime but not prestige cuvee. Nuts, creamy, still fresh. 92

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• acyso wrote: 88 points

  June 24, 2019 - Champagne, Riesling, and Bordeaux with Skippy (Chicago, IL): A little old for my tastes. This has a fair bit of sherried qualities, as well as a pleasant nutty salinity. The fruit is ripe, but definitely of a browned quality. More interesting than good at this point.

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• bestdamncab Likes this wine: 90 points

  October 3, 2017 - 1993 Tollot Beau Corton Bressandes vs, 1990 Louis Latour Corton Grancey, as usual, we opened with a lovely champagne, a floral nose of walnuts, hazelnuts, caramel, and minerals, obviously better five years ago, but tasty and went well with the Crispy Skin Peking Duck as did both Red Burgundys of course, same on the palate, rich fruit, tasty fruit, easy to sip and enjoy, medium amount of tiny bubbles formed a mousse, golden sunset yellow in the glass, and a long finish.

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• Rupert wrote: 88 points

  June 3, 2011 - 8th Annual Blind Challenge (The Square, Mayfair, London): Ripe and advanced, a bit too old and pongy for my taste, but it had a fine prickle - I guessed 88 Salon

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• Paul S wrote: 92 points

  December 3, 2010 - Kelvin's Bachelor's Party (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Pretty good stuff. Opinions were split amongst the table as to whether the surprisingly drinkable 2000 DP or this was better. I liked the style here, but eventually found that the DP probably had better raw material - this had the benefit of an additional decade of age though, so it ran the DP close. A deep golden yellow colour certainly showed its age, and a few of us guessed it as a 1990 immediately due the the richness on both the nose and palate. Lots of secondary smells here, slightly oxidative in style - white meat, chicken essence, white plums, a little honey, some caramel and with time, pretty pronounced whiffs of roasted nuts. Palate had a weighty richness to it, with sweet, ripe yellow fruit flavours, kumquats and apricot nestling amidst fine mousse and some citrusy lime accents. Lovely, developed fruit sweetness on the mid-palate, but this still had some energy in it to keep it fresh. Indeed, while there was a patina of age, there is still some youth showing in its finely frothing mousse and gentle minerality that played around the back-palate. Just a hint of heat at the very end distracted me a little, but otherwise, a really nice Champagne. Real nice with both the roasted suckling pig and lobster with truffled egg whites.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1990
• Type White - Sparkling
• Producer Taittinger
• Varietal Champagne Blend
• Designation Brut Millésimé
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Champagne
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Champagne

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• In Cellars 45 (73%)
• Consumed 17 (27%)

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