Community Tasting Notes 108

• Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 24, 2024 - Nose of delicious complexity: blend of citrus, orange peel, tropical fruits, chalk and jasmine.
  
  In the mouth, the effervescence caresses and awakens the taste buds with a beautiful touch, the juice is ample but with a beautiful fullness. The dosage is perfectly integrated and the wine unfolds its entire palette of patinated champagne with magnificent density and delicacy. Jasmine largely dominates, with crusts of baguette, a herbaceous hint, a zest of spice, sweet almond, pear, quince… The whole thing is perfectly regulated like on music paper. Large, intense and long finish, chalky and saline which stretches delicately.
  
  Great champagne.

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 92 points

  March 1, 2024 - Some Wine Tasted at the Acker La Paulée Auction (Maybourne Hotel - Beverly Hills CA): Tasted at auction. Very rich, fully mature. Very good volume.

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• KeithAkers wrote: 94 points

  November 1, 2023 - Post-Prelude 25-Nebbiolo B sides (DP's, Goose Hollow, Portland OR): This is so giving, generous, and balanced as it permeates in the glass with mature tones of honeydew, caramel apples, toasty notes, brioche, bosc pears, yellow flowers, and some almond paste. The Medium bodied feel is balanced and deft in the way that only a mature champagne can be along with integrated and crisp, high acidity. This is a beautifully mature champagne that is just sexy. That’s really all there is to it!

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• JulianSkeels wrote: 96 points

  October 1, 2023 - So much better than the 2002 rendition, brioche and chalk sour from the glass. Whilst not as deep looking as expected, in the mouth it is very broad and there is tonnes of fruit with a very dry chalky finish. Just lacks a long a detailed tail. Excellent fine mouse. Whilst great now I think this will actually improve further to almost 2030. An unexpected hit. 96+pts

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• Somm David T Likes this wine: 95 points

  May 6, 2023 - Yeah, this is really good. From one of the grandest Champagne vintages in a 100 years or so.
  
  The nose is extremely complex. Notes of; mixed orange citrus, overripe golden apple, bruised pear, overripe papaya & mango, stone fruit, just a hint of Meyer lemon, brioche, biscuits, baguette crust, ginger ale to gingerbread, white spice, faint sea fossils, understated saline, limestone marl, soft herbaceous, beautiful, powdery chalkiness, heavy cream, yellow lilies, jasmine and spring flowers in a field of greens.
  
  The palate is gentle, micro lean bubbles, amazingly, soft mousse. Just beautiful, orange citrus, overripe golden apple, bruised pear, overripe papaya & mango, stone fruit, just a hint of Meyer lemon, juicy lime pulp, brioche, biscuits, baguette crust, ginger ale to gingerbread, graham crackers, vanillin, white spice, crushed more pronounced sea fossils, understated saline, limestone marl, soft herbaceous, beautiful, powdery chalkiness, heavy cream, yellow & white lilies, jasmine and spring flowers in a field of greens. The acidity is perfect. The finish is excellent with similarities wire to wire. Lasts minutes.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type White - Sparkling
• Producer Billecart-Salmon
• Varietal Champagne Blend
• Designation Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Champagne
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Champagne
• UPC Code 3113946256732

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• In Cellars 551 (41%)
• Consumed 787 (59%)

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