Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Saturday, December 16, 2017 - Disgorged in 3/2016. Alcohol 12%, dosage 3 g/l.

Lemon yellow color. Delicate, cool and quite attractive nose with subtle aromas of apple slices, some autolytic toasty character and a hint of creaminess. The wine is bright, crisp and pretty light-bodied on the palate with racy acidity and lively flavors of lemony citrus fruits, some saline minerality and a hint of yeasty leesiness. The mousse feels soft, fine and persistent. The mouth-cleansing finish is crisp and racy with long flavors of saline sea wind, tart green apples, some lemony citrus fruits and a hint of chalk.

A very pure, mineral and racy Champagne with lovely freshness and focus. Remarkably balanced and enjoyable already, despite its obvious youth, but I prefer my Champagnes with some age. Fortunately this wine shows terrific cellaring potential, so I wager this will be a thing of beauty at 10 years of age. Perhaps a bit too young now, but with a year or two more this will hopefully show a bit more developed complexity in addition to its fresh, racy fruit. Terrific now, but I expect my score to go up with age.

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