Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, December 14, 2019 - DRC vs Leroy Dinner (Kheam Hock Road): Absolutely lovely. What a privilege to drink this again. The nose was pure Krug magic, with wonderfully rich aromas of honey and caramel and treacle, ripe red apples and yellow fruit, then warm wafts of brioche and butter and spice, this edged with a nice umami edge. Wonderful. The palate was superb. Fresh, youthful, lively, with a real burst of kumquat and lime zest on the attack yielding to deep draws of white fruit and red apple flesh on the midpalate, almost a hint of sour cherries, and then a wonderful long tail of mineral, earth and warm spice at the finish. What a finish too - an incredible length and depth to it, just coating the midpalate and refusing to quit. Power, energy and fullness, yet embued with a noble grace. Wonderful, wonderful stuff - this was every bit as deep and profound as the 1990 Salon in the same flight, perhaps even more powerful and intense, if just slightly less elegantly filigreed. Maybe not as mindblowing as the last bottle I had, but this was as close to a perfect champagne as one gets. This was just a half-step behind the Salon 1990 tonight though, lacking that immense quiet elegance that the other wine had, but it certainly felt that this has a lot more in its tank, while the Salon was at its absolute peak and needed to be drank up.

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