Lovely mid gold. Nose of sweet lemon curd and hint of wet limestome. Touch of apple. Palate full and deliciously rounded. Lemon flavor that extends to the finish which is crisp, dry and delightfully mineral. Depth of flavour lingers in the mouth. Still young and youthful. 92+
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Saturday hangout at Domaine (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Disgorged April 8, 2015, 3 g/L dosage. I really wish this had a bit more dosage. It's really taut and high acid, and it's not my style of champagne. This veers a bit too far to the sour territory. Others liked this far more than I did, praising the freshness and the electricity, but for me, it really just boiled down to there being too much acid.
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Fresh melon, lemon (not just an anagram!), honey, and mineral-inflected aromas. A beautiful medium lemon color with lively bubbles, this drank superbly as a medium bodied Champagne with moderate richness and on likely the start of its plateau of drinking. Beautiful today.
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Btld 14 March 2009, Disg, Apr 8, 2015. 3g/l dosage. Btl 1160. Final btl..fanastic showing. Pop and pour. Lovely lemon and chalk, soft apple, vanilla. On the palate: perfect acidity and density...well balanced fruit and sweetness. Yum!
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Beautiful once again. We waver between a 92 to 93 to 93+. Very similar experience as my last note. Paired exceptionally with variety of seafood and seafood pasta dishes.
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Outstanding! Chardonnay character was unmistakable with mineral, chalk, lemon and white floral notes. Apple and pastry too. Tight bubbles, lovely acidity with just the right amount of richness. Among the more well balanced champagnes I’ve had, especially at this price point. Not sure whether to credit the vintner or the vintage, but regardless of the reason this is one I’ll happily revisit. This has plenty of energy- it’s clearly in its drinking window but I suspect it’s got many, many good years ahead.
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Lovely creamy, biscuit aromatics. The palate is still fairly austere, but less clenched than 2.5 years ago. While this loosened up a bit over days 2 and 3, the palate never became particularly generous. I think it will always have a very dry, somewhat austere palate, albeit with some lovely flavors and aromas. Next bottle in 2-3 years.
Opened by Mark who purchased this in France. 100% Chardonnay from a 2 hectare parcel in the Les Chetillons vineyard planted in 1956. This is the first vintage of this wine bottled by Moncuit. No dosage. Disgorged April 2015. Moderate bead. Light yellow color. Notes of cherries, fresh cream, chalk and brioche with a long finish. Fuller body. This was the best of the 4 champagnes we opened that evening. 95 points.
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"Let's spend all our money on grape juice" (Chicago, IL): Not opening this next to the Pierre Peters? For shame. In any case, the easiest way to describe this wine is to compare it to the Peters. While this is clearly 2008 chardonnay -- the citric acidity and lean, mineral-driven structure are dead giveaways -- there's also not that same sense of intensity and focus that Peters tends to have.
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3 g/l dosage. terrific cut and intensity. great lemony notes that lingered on the palate. i freak'n loved this wine. this tasted young not at all advanced to me... could easily drink a lot of this wine.
A glorious btl of champagne. Loads of bright stone fruit and citrus, a touch of toast and more white flowers all the way through. Great acidity on the palate, more bright citrus and fantastic body. Very clean finish.
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From memory, dinner at k.diners. Tight bubbles, green apple, lemon, mineral, brioche, biscuit and a herbal liqueur undertone on the nose. Full, rich mid-palate, mineral mineral, long finish. A little underwhelming today, I think the stuffing is there for a great future, it just needs time to get there.
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What a treat! Crisp, slightly tart granny smith apple taste with lemon peel zest. Elegantly balanced floral nose. I need to pick up a few more bottles!
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72 months aging in cave, dosage 3g/L, disgorged 4/8/15. This bottle comes across as very deserving of its Extra Brut classification - in fact today it tastes bone dry and is quite austere and closed. I tasted it briefly last December and recall more density and sucrosity. I used to love low/zero dosage Champagnes but now struggle with many of them. For now I will say the nose is promising. Update much later in the evening: this opened up and showed typical beautiful Chetillons flavors of rich pastry and fresh baked dough. Wonderful richness contrasting with the bone dry palate impression. I'm now quite bullish on this wine's future and may pick up some additional bottles at the right price.
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Young, a bit toasty and smoky nose of black currants and oranges. Quite high acidity of a grapefruit. Very ripe, not exactly BdB style. Not that drinkable at the moment, seemed somewhat disjointed. I would let it rest for some more years.
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härligt blommig chamapgne som redan är väldigt drickvänlig även om den säkert har mer att ge med åren. vinet har en härlig mix av blommor och mandelmjölk i doften och smaken domineras av mycket härlig citrus, aningen gröna gräsiga toner och härlig syra. toppvin!
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Hög syra. Starka citrustoner som även är väldigt uthålliga, stannar trots lång tid i glaset. En mycket god Les Chetillons med härliga inslag av mandel och marsipan. Möjligen saknas vissa övertoner typiska för 2008 i Cote de Blancs.
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From vineyards planted in '51, '68, '70 and '72. Bottled March 24th 2009 and disgorged in April 8th 2015. 3 g/l RS.
Pale yellow-green color. Delicate, high-toned and bright nose of almond, cream, savory brioche and a hint of vanilla creme. Bone-dry, crisp and even austere palate with intense, tightly wound acid-driven structure. The flavor side seems to be quite devoid of fruit, concentrating on flavors of French bready leesiness, chalk, stony minerality, some spice and a hint of savory pastry. Rich and crisp mousse. Long, crisp and mineral-driven finish with flavors of stone dust, cream, spice, some crème fraîche and a hint of quark.
The wine is obviously too painfully young and austere now, almost unapproachable in its stony, mineral expression and bone-dry flavor. Requires food to coax some fruit out under the layers of minerality and to smoothen the acidic bite a bit. Shows wonderful focus and potential to be something remarkable in the future, but I wonder if even a decade of cellaring will be enough for this. Worth its price at 59€ if you have enough patience.
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Really bright, piercing citrus and green apple fruit tinged with yeasty, chalky, and biscuit-like notes. Lots of focus and vibrancy on the palate with bright acids and effervescence, but it doesn't show quite the level of depth I'd expect from this site.
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Good not great. A bit too sweet for my taste up front. With air it gets better but clearly no where close to the Pierre Peters version of this vineyard.
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9/29/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
2008 Champagne - 25 top names tasted blind: Discrete nose, after swirling some apples, citrus, oak spice. The lightest wine on the flight. Good but not special.
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7/15/2023 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Once again, a great experience. Paired with sea scallop, bacon cream pasta 93+
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3/11/2023 - Vintage1961 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lovely mid gold. Nose of sweet lemon curd and hint of wet limestome. Touch of apple.
Palate full and deliciously rounded. Lemon flavor that extends to the finish which is crisp, dry and delightfully mineral. Depth of flavour lingers in the mouth.
Still young and youthful. 92+
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3/26/2022 - acyso wrote: 88 Points
Saturday hangout at Domaine (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Disgorged April 8, 2015, 3 g/L dosage. I really wish this had a bit more dosage. It's really taut and high acid, and it's not my style of champagne. This veers a bit too far to the sour territory. Others liked this far more than I did, praising the freshness and the electricity, but for me, it really just boiled down to there being too much acid.
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8/5/2021 - SoundinBetween wrote:
Fresh melon, lemon (not just an anagram!), honey, and mineral-inflected aromas. A beautiful medium lemon color with lively bubbles, this drank superbly as a medium bodied Champagne with moderate richness and on likely the start of its plateau of drinking. Beautiful today.
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5/9/2021 - Aravind Asok wrote:
Btld 14 March 2009, Disg, Apr 8, 2015. 3g/l dosage. Btl 1160. Final btl..fanastic showing. Pop and pour. Lovely lemon and chalk, soft apple, vanilla. On the palate: perfect acidity and density...well balanced fruit and sweetness. Yum!
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5/1/2021 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great Chetillons. Consistent with prior note.
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12/24/2020 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful once again. We waver between a 92 to 93 to 93+. Very similar experience as my last note. Paired exceptionally with variety of seafood and seafood pasta dishes.
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11/26/2020 - weezie Likes this wine: 93 Points
Outstanding! Chardonnay character was unmistakable with mineral, chalk, lemon and white floral notes. Apple and pastry too. Tight bubbles, lovely acidity with just the right amount of richness. Among the more well balanced champagnes I’ve had, especially at this price point. Not sure whether to credit the vintner or the vintage, but regardless of the reason this is one I’ll happily revisit. This has plenty of energy- it’s clearly in its drinking window but I suspect it’s got many, many good years ahead.
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7/23/2020 - 5laton wrote:
Lovely creamy, biscuit aromatics. The palate is still fairly austere, but less clenched than 2.5 years ago.
While this loosened up a bit over days 2 and 3, the palate never became particularly generous. I think it will always have a very dry, somewhat austere palate, albeit with some lovely flavors and aromas.
Next bottle in 2-3 years.
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12/22/2019 - mnoljo wrote: 93 Points
From le 520 a beautiful champagne full bodied with minerals and hints red fruits? Surprising. wonderful finish worth seeking out
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12/21/2019 - Vino Me wrote: 95 Points
Opened by Mark who purchased this in France. 100% Chardonnay from a 2 hectare parcel in the Les Chetillons vineyard planted in 1956. This is the first vintage of this wine bottled by Moncuit. No dosage. Disgorged April 2015. Moderate bead. Light yellow color. Notes of cherries, fresh cream, chalk and brioche with a long finish. Fuller body. This was the best of the 4 champagnes we opened that evening. 95 points.
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7/7/2019 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
"Let's spend all our money on grape juice" (Chicago, IL): Not opening this next to the Pierre Peters? For shame. In any case, the easiest way to describe this wine is to compare it to the Peters. While this is clearly 2008 chardonnay -- the citric acidity and lean, mineral-driven structure are dead giveaways -- there's also not that same sense of intensity and focus that Peters tends to have.
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4/13/2019 - carlwhat wrote:
3 g/l dosage. terrific cut and intensity. great lemony notes that lingered on the palate. i freak'n loved this wine. this tasted young not at all advanced to me... could easily drink a lot of this wine.
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3/10/2019 - AV2012 wrote: 91 Points
From magnum it was full of lemon-lime juice, fresh, very young and energetic. Built for the long haul.
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10/20/2018 - canan wrote: 91 Points
10Y Weekend (Day 2) (LTDV): Restrained and aggressive. Needs more time!
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10/13/2018 - StasMedvedev.lv Likes this wine: 92 Points
🍾 Rating 92/100 (4,2🌟)
Poured from Magnum. Bordeaux Super Seconds after-party.
Crisp, fresh and chalky mineral. Persistent, bit floral, apples, pastry.
Will evolve in future. Drink 2020-2030
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9/21/2018 - Aravind Asok wrote:
A glorious btl of champagne. Loads of bright stone fruit and citrus, a touch of toast and more white flowers all the way through. Great acidity on the palate, more bright citrus and fantastic body. Very clean finish.
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6/11/2018 - Machiavelli wrote:
From memory, dinner at k.diners. Tight bubbles, green apple, lemon, mineral, brioche, biscuit and a herbal liqueur undertone on the nose. Full, rich mid-palate, mineral mineral, long finish. A little underwhelming today, I think the stuffing is there for a great future, it just needs time to get there.
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1/12/2018 - 5laton wrote:
Very closed on day 1. Delicious on day 2, but rather severe. Hold remaining bottles at least 2-3 years.
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1/6/2018 - 5laton wrote: flawed
Corked
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12/30/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Oh man, what a classic Blanc de Blancs! Light, fresh, frothy, focused, dry, and chalky. Loved this bottle.
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10/23/2017 - AV2012 wrote:
Very yeasty and bready, as well as spicy. Not as chalky and lean as one could expect from the vintage and appelation.
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10/11/2017 - Bordeauxman wrote: 93 Points
What a treat! Crisp, slightly tart granny smith apple taste with lemon peel zest. Elegantly balanced floral nose. I need to pick up a few more bottles!
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9/19/2017 - AV2012 wrote: flawed
Reductive and dirty. I think an off bottle.
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8/12/2017 - 5laton wrote:
72 months aging in cave, dosage 3g/L, disgorged 4/8/15.
This bottle comes across as very deserving of its Extra Brut classification - in fact today it tastes bone dry and is quite austere and closed. I tasted it briefly last December and recall more density and sucrosity. I used to love low/zero dosage Champagnes but now struggle with many of them. For now I will say the nose is promising.
Update much later in the evening: this opened up and showed typical beautiful Chetillons flavors of rich pastry and fresh baked dough. Wonderful richness contrasting with the bone dry palate impression. I'm now quite bullish on this wine's future and may pick up some additional bottles at the right price.
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7/23/2017 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Disgorged 4/8/2015, with dosage of 3 g/l. Zesty, with good cut. Mineral, lemon peel, pippin apple and a touch of honey and lime in the finish.
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12/15/2016 - drwine2001 wrote:
Brief Takes on a Slew of Grower Champagnes (Arlequin Wine Merchant, San Francisco): Dry, creamy, long, serious depth of flavor with some grilled nuts for complexity. Really excellent and the only luxury cuvée I tasted tonight for which I would consider spending the extra $$.
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12/6/2016 - AV2012 wrote: 89 Points
Young, a bit toasty and smoky nose of black currants and oranges. Quite high acidity of a grapefruit. Very ripe, not exactly BdB style. Not that drinkable at the moment, seemed somewhat disjointed. I would let it rest for some more years.
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11/28/2016 - MWiking wrote: 91 Points
härligt blommig chamapgne som redan är väldigt drickvänlig även om den säkert har mer att ge med åren.
vinet har en härlig mix av blommor och mandelmjölk i doften och smaken domineras av mycket härlig citrus, aningen gröna gräsiga toner och härlig syra. toppvin!
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11/24/2016 - Patrik H Likes this wine: 90 Points
On the nose: Flowers, mineral, almond, coffee.
On the palate: High acidity, lemon, mineral, almond
Medium + finish
In its youth and quite one-dimensional at this point. Keep in cellar for at least 4 years and you will be rewarded.
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11/24/2016 - Rixon Likes this wine: 90 Points
Hög syra. Starka citrustoner som även är väldigt uthålliga, stannar trots lång tid i glaset. En mycket god Les Chetillons med härliga inslag av mandel och marsipan. Möjligen saknas vissa övertoner typiska för 2008 i Cote de Blancs.
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8/22/2016 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points
From vineyards planted in '51, '68, '70 and '72. Bottled March 24th 2009 and disgorged in April 8th 2015. 3 g/l RS.
Pale yellow-green color. Delicate, high-toned and bright nose of almond, cream, savory brioche and a hint of vanilla creme. Bone-dry, crisp and even austere palate with intense, tightly wound acid-driven structure. The flavor side seems to be quite devoid of fruit, concentrating on flavors of French bready leesiness, chalk, stony minerality, some spice and a hint of savory pastry. Rich and crisp mousse. Long, crisp and mineral-driven finish with flavors of stone dust, cream, spice, some crème fraîche and a hint of quark.
The wine is obviously too painfully young and austere now, almost unapproachable in its stony, mineral expression and bone-dry flavor. Requires food to coax some fruit out under the layers of minerality and to smoothen the acidic bite a bit. Shows wonderful focus and potential to be something remarkable in the future, but I wonder if even a decade of cellaring will be enough for this. Worth its price at 59€ if you have enough patience.
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1/29/2016 - salil wrote: 91 Points
Really bright, piercing citrus and green apple fruit tinged with yeasty, chalky, and biscuit-like notes. Lots of focus and vibrancy on the palate with bright acids and effervescence, but it doesn't show quite the level of depth I'd expect from this site.
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1/22/2016 - JOsgood wrote:
Good not great. A bit too sweet for my taste up front. With air it gets better but clearly no where close to the Pierre Peters version of this vineyard.
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