Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - SMD at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): A solid champagne, but this lagged behind both Krug 2002 and the Cristal 2008 on the same flight. The nose here was very advanced, with honey and caramel, and then oxidative shades of browned apples swirling around a core of cherry flesh, fresher apple and spice aromas. The oxidative notes put me off a bit, but past that, this was actually a really nice nose. The palate was very solid. Grippy, deep and powerful, this had a wonderfully sinewy seam of lemon juice and minerality running through a mouthful of bright citrus and green apple notes, somehow drinking younger than the nose led on. On the midpalate and beyond, some of those meaty, earthy notes started to drift out as well, before a sharper, more defined notes of citrus zest reasserted itself on a long, precise finish. Very nice. Lots of cut and energy on this - a true 1996 - but this somehow was not deliciously complete as the Cristal nor effortlessly strong as the Krug. Still though, very good and drinking fairly well now.

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