Community Tasting Note

j45 wrote:

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Gorgeous wine. Bone dry and conveying a sense of crystalline purity with salty lemon fruit wound around a chalky mineral core. Cramant's distinctive power:subtlety juxtaposition is on full display here. If anybody wants a short lesson on Cramant terroir, pour this wine side-by-side with Diebolt-Vallois' Cuvée Préstige. There are green tones inside the wine that identify it as a 2004; they don't intrude but rather add an earthy, Swiss chard stalk-like complexity that makes the wine more appetizing. Zesty and tingling with energy in the mouth, this fizz is so refreshing I could drink it all night long (and I just might!) If there's one knock on the wine, it's its rather clipped finish. I will try to give this wine another five years (2016) to flesh out before I open my next bottle.

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