May 3, 2024 - Brought this wine to HaiDiLao (Downtown East) for a family dinner with my mother-in-law.
Lush, bubbly, easy to drink. A very nice compliment to the hotpot we had. Served well chilled, the wine was more than a match for the spice and umami from the dinner.
March 8, 2024 - Rounding out in the bottle. Well put together and agreeable. A bit understated maybe.
March 8, 2024 - Two 3.0L bottles at La Folie Douce, Avoriaz. It could have been petrol and we would have loved it. Started as an 89 and only went uphill from there .
January 13, 2024 - Vino obtenido de un coleccionista con alrededor de 30 años de edad. No era un champagne para guardar así que cualquier cosa podía pasar. La nariz oscilaba entre los tonos naranja y los oro viejo. La nariz aparece algo reducida, hay notas de humedad, bosque umbrío , sensaciones ahumadas, algo de pastelería y algo de confitura de fruta con hueso. En boca aparece cansado, aunque mantiene algo de burbuja y un hálito de frescura. Longitud media.
January 1, 2024 - Slightly sweet, nice floral notes, some acidity. This years Mumm did not bring anything special to the table but remains a nice champagne, a little overpriced in my opinion. 85 rating.
December 31, 2023 - Brought this to a gathering with some old friends whom used to perform on stage together.
Bubbly, with a crisp palate and sharp finish. Toasty, crunchy red apples with some wild yeast.
December 6, 2023 - NobleRottersSydney - Marg River & Great Southern (Fix, St James, Sydney): {diam, 12.5%} [Kim] Fairly neutral nose of white flowers, squash, gentle rockmelon. Not much yeast influence evident. Palate suggests the bare minimum time on lees. Clean, white fruit, verging on neutral; perhaps a gentle hint of citrus. Light/medium weight, medium/large and fairly aggressive bubbles make the palate. Crisp, crunchy aperitif style.
December 3, 2023 - Pink tinged, frothy at first, but then subsided into a steady stream of fine bubbles, biscuity, a pleasing touch of sweetnesss - really nice
November 19, 2023 - Very good, pinot noir and minerally driven NV champagne that most people dont understand. Updated label design so the bottle was very young, disgorgement date unknown. Fun to drink, no need to wait here.
November 3, 2023 - Paid a stupefying $1 for this obviously old rag-tag bottle of isht.
It's a pre-barcode bottle with the cork imprint: I-59EM. or 1-59EM or 1 59EM or 59EM
Looking at the PDF at
https://www.tysonstelzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-codebreakers-guide-to-unlocking-champagne.pdf I feel, there has to be better intel...
I don't think it was degorged in 1959 as there are still bubbles and it produced a small "plop" as I removed the cork. For the first time in my life, the Champoo-cork came apart... The lowest layer of cork crumbled upon opening. And even the oldest set of Cavas I opened (30+ years, 10 btls) never showed that issue.
Amber. Dark Amber.
A lot of old apples in here. Actually makes me think of a recent Entre-Deux-Mers from 1998 I enjoyed recently, with a bit of fizz to it. Brown apples galore.
However, the multilayered acidity is a different cookie. I don't think this was ever a very good wine, but given today's new customer contract and all... It has A LOT of brown apples in it. But also that beautiful high acidity that isn't from immature fruit. Like what the love of my life does even better: Muscadet.
This has medium length. Medium everything, except from M+ acidity and MEGA brown apples...
I award this 90 points.