Community Tasting Note

PanosKakaviatos wrote:

Thursday, August 6, 2015 - Mostly Napas and white Burgundies with Washington Winos (Ripple Restaurant in Washington D.C.): Very focused bubbly. Taut and needs time to open up in glass. Precise and pure, with burgeoning flavors indicating future complexity, including ripe pear, wet stone, red apple and citrus aspects. Bubbles are fine and smooth leading to a medium plus finish. A good sign for the 2008 vintage in Champagne, somewhat problematic in initial and middle phases (uneven flowering, due to oscillating temperatures; cloudy and cool summer weather that may have prevented full maturity of grapes), but turning out great due to an excellent Indian Summer that concentrated the sugars to match natural high acidities at harvest-time in mid to late September. Thanks to Randy McFarlane for bringing this bottle.

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