Community Tasting Note

DoubleT wrote:

Friday, December 5, 2014 - What to expect from 48 years of cellaring? Good question. Fizz was gone from this one, quite common for this kind of age really. Still well sealed bottle with crisp nose.

At first pour, time covers the potential. Needs air desperatly. The closed hints of dark cellar quickly fades and out comes old wooden furniture, evolving into caramelized nuts. Intense traces of dried fruits, not sure exactly what kinds of fruits. Nose becomes more discrete over time.

The taste is clearly old school champagne. Dark fruit with balanced sweetness. Fright of some oxidized notes due to lack of bubbles dissapears. Bottle has done well during almost five decades. Impressive. One can question wether a young high end bottle would really be a nicer treat with the fizz and freshness. And I am tempted to say yes, butthen there is nothing like the nowadays quite rare old school richness and complexity. Shortbread, sweet cookies, hints of burned almonds evolving.

Not very long finish, but what would you expect? For the vintage and age, this is quite as expected.

90p. If my next bottle of this (oh yeah!) still have some fizz, this is an easy 95.

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