Community Tasting Note

julen789 Does not like this wine:

Monday, November 30, 2020 - DG 11/2017 Vintage 2014
Bottle opened ~15 minutes before serving. My initial impression was not very positive; it seemed like the type of aggressively mineral champagne that is not to my taste. It was slow to open up: overripe fruits such as apples, pears, a lot of bitter grapefruit, citrus fruits such as lemon and lime, and melon; very strong mineral presence with a lot of chalk, a mineral ‘stink’, and wet stones; it showed a herbal side as well, with cut grass and parsley.
It was hard to enjoy this; it’s not my kind of champagne, I found it extremely austere and inexpressive, without much interest beyond its high minerality. It almost drinks like a sparkling chablis. Not sure if it’s worth storing; my impression of the fruit is that it was picked very ripe, and I’m not sure how the wine will age. Medium-high acidity, vinous on the palate.
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