Disgorged 9/19. 2G/L dosage. Very pretty with White flowers, lemon and custard on the nose. Lemon and green apple on the palate. I think this bottle benefitted from some time - no rush. 91 points
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Left a lot to be desired after having the 2014 terre d'lite recently. I expected more. Just a bit closed, dry and unforgiving. Not bad by any means but not something to seek out.
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I like this Champagne a lot better than others from "higher" appellations. Great combo of subtle florals such as violet and rose, with present yet smooth acidity, obvious lees and consequential notes of biscuit and toast.
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Disgorged Feb 2016. This was pretty good but I never really wrapped my head around it. I found more apple and orchard fruit than lemon and citrus. It was lively, and crisp with some mineral accents. Ann didn’t love it and she thought there was something tart and weird tasting. I enjoyed this more as it warmed and I’d like to give it another go when I can pay more attention.
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“Anecdote” is an unusual wine from Moussé Fils, a grower that specializes in Pinot Meunier. Instead, the grapes for this wine comes from the Varosses lieu-dit which is planted 100% to Chardonnay. The wine pours a golden straw color with fine bubbles. There’s a remarkable nose of bruised pear, lightly toasted brioche, peaches, ginger bread, radishes and almonds…a little oxidative. On the palate, pear and peach with soaring acid and a bunch of minerals. Long dry finish. 02252016 disgorgement, 5G/L
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Lean and minerally. Well, not that lean. Decent heft but tons of mineral character. Pure Chardonnay expression as if raised away from wood for the most part. Still in the vein of the nerdy for Champagnes. Good for that type.
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As other noted, this was a dry, cool champagne with a clean nose, and a touch of lamoniness. Needed a bit of time to come into its own. This was the perfect aperitif for us on a hot July afternoon.
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I didn't really dig this bottle as much as the last. It's a good wine but it doesn't put me clearly in Champagne. It's quite clean and mean without that richness you would normally associate with fruit from Champagne. One of those things that most often sets Champagnes apart from other sparkling wines. I got a sense of wood on the nose in the background along with some lemon skin. A touch floral. Grippy pith on the palate. Drying acidity making it very clean. Glassy and lacking that richness as I mentioned. There's something cool about the build here but as a Champagne it lacks a bit of something also. Depth if I had to sum it up. Would be very food friendly. Think oysters and raw veggies.
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Really pleasant, deeply mineral BdB with minimal dosage (2.8g/L I believe). It has some grassy, green apple, and faint lemon notes. Lengthy, without any hint of bitterness. Of all the wines in the Moussé Fils stable, this has been my favorite to date.
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09/19 disgorgement. I don't think I would put this on BdB blind. I was a bit mixed up when I opened this and thought it something else. I honestly thought it was Blanc de Noirs. It's more apple and berry than citrus. But there is some straight lemon on the palate. A lively palate it is. The fruit really jumps up for you to notice. That fruit is built over lively acidity. A note better on night one where it all came together better making it prettier and difficult to ignore. You notice the individual building blocks more on night two. I really like this. A unique expression of Chardonnay. The progression overnight will make me drink the remaining bottles over a shorter window.
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Lovely, clean nose, crisp on the palate, essentially a nice, slightly effervescent, Chardonnay, bright, slightly lemony, some mineral. Quite enjoyable.
Half the bottle left, stoppered overnight in the fridge. I’m liking this more today, has a more classic nose, a bit more depth and complexity on the palate, mousse is finer, creamier, softer, longer finish, less lemon, more brioche. Today this tastes more like champagne, and less like merely a crisp, carbonated Chardonnay.
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Served with Christmas dinner, this was tight as a drum, showed zero fruit, and made my wife unhappy. Total bummer from a producer that I normally love. Stick to the Meunier bottlings.
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Disgorged Sept. 2019. Ample bubbles, fine mousse. Light straw. Taut and tart, with some lime zest a bit of chalk, hint of lemon curd and a whiff of pastry crust on finish. Probably better to wait.
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Disg. Jan. 2019. Serious Champagne for the money. Cedric Mousse seems to do that well. Very pure fruit. Needs time to open. Poured my second glass and left it for 30 mins, came back to lovely texture and tropical fruit notes. Balance and finesse. Very fine. Will leave other two bottles alone for a bit.
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"Profondement Meunier"......well Cedric, not quite! This is your 100% Chardonnay. 😄. Within the Marne, inside the village of Cuisles, on a property where Pinot Meunier is king, there is a small plot at the top of the slope, planted to Chardonnay. If I remember the history correctly, this plot was planted by Cedric's father. He determined the 'terre d'illite', which is the green clay of the slope and property, it was way too deep for the Pinot Meunier roots to reach. Instead, he intuitively he replanted to Chardonnay, and it works! This is the January 2019 disgorgement, and I notice here that Cedric has reduced the dosage (what I recall as being 5 grams in other disgorgements), it is now 2 grams. And I like that shift, as the wine seems better balanced. White flowers, built around a core of pear, golden apple, lime and tangerine. The flavors pop, with a long, fruit driven finish. There is a purity of flavor here that is approachable and showy. The best bottle of Anecdote to date, too...and with a full day of air (under stopper overnight), the wine drinks similarly, but with an added note of pineapple that is sitting lightly in the background. This bottle is simply delicious.
On the leaner end of the spectrum, with nice persistence. Lemony fruit at first, then a little oxidative richness the second day. This continues to impress, especially considering the price.
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Disgorged 1/31/19, 2 g/L dosage. 12% alcohol. Poured into a Grassl Mineralite glass.
Robust mousse that dissipates pretty quickly, leaving residual tiny bubbles. Explosive on the palate with green apple, lemon curd, fresh cut flowers, chalky minerality, and a touch of brioche on the finish. Absolutely delicious bubbles.
Most of the beauty will show after 1-2 days open. The charm lives within the amplitudes. It’s a highly calibrated precise weaving of chalk, saline, and yeast. Creamy piercing acid and Chardonnay typicity. Lemon, white perfumed flowed, yellow apple. Finish goes and goes.
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Same back label specs as the July 2019 bottle, as I picked them both up at Hi Time Cellars. The bottle last night was good, and I preferred it cooler, with more chill. That temp seemed to really bring the spine of the wine forward. As the wine warmed, a solid core of green apple emerged and it was a bit one noted, honestly. Nothing to retaste today.
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Bought 2 of these this week for $45 US. Last tasted at the winery in 2018, which I logged as NV. Despite Hitime Cellars listing this as a 2013 on their website, I can find anything to back that up so I am going to use NV as the designation. 100% Chard, disgorged August 2017 with 5 g/l dosage. This is the single plot of Chard that Mousse farrms, formerly planted to Pinot Meunier, but was ripped out and planted with the Chard which does better on this section of the vineyard where the green clay lies. This is what I would call mouthfilling, with plenty of green apple, ginger, lemon and some lees seasoning the wine. A cool swath of saline refreshes the finish. This is a generous, rounder bubbly that is easy to drink, with the right level of acidity and fruit to make it all work. Worth picking up a few more next time I am down in Costa Mesa. Of note, there doesn't seem to be much of this in CT so I am not sure how much makes it to the US.
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Mousse has so little Chardonnay in the range, but there is one single parcel, that was formerly Pinot Meunier but it performed so poorly that Cedric's father decided to figure out why. He dug down and found out that the green clay was nearly 160cm down, which was far too deep for the vines to reach. So, he pulled it out and planted Chardonnay, and the plot is called Les Varosses. This has a different mouthfeel than all the other Mousse cuvees, as the texture shows a polish and smooth expression. Creamy lemon, along with some apple. Quite BdB in tone and I enjoyed this, as change of pace for the rest of the PM and PN dominated range.
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Rocky, crystals, thorns, minerals up front with delicate lemon blossom floral notes, lemon curd and a drop of coconut meat; precise, edgy, perky with good "mousse", almost an impression of chalky tannins (from chalk soils in Cuisles?); With Terry Theise at Covel.
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10/28/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
La Fête du Champagne Grand Tasting (Pier Sixty - New York NY): Walkaround tasting. MV with 2019 base. 100% chardonnay, Brut Nature. Very bright with the richness to balance. Ripe apple aromas and flavors. Very tasty.
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4/4/2023 - sastewart wrote: 91 Points
Disgorged 9/19. 2G/L dosage. Very pretty with White flowers, lemon and custard on the nose. Lemon and green apple on the palate. I think this bottle benefitted from some time - no rush. 91 points
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1/31/2023 - TXRhoneRanger wrote: 91 Points
Delicate and enjoyable. I want a touch more fruit, but nonetheless this is very fine high toned Chardo Champs. Very fine.
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9/2/2022 - Jd6725 wrote: 89 Points
Left a lot to be desired after having the 2014 terre d'lite recently. I expected more. Just a bit closed, dry and unforgiving. Not bad by any means but not something to seek out.
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6/1/2022 - VinoMomNola Likes this wine: 90 Points
I like this Champagne a lot better than others from "higher" appellations. Great combo of subtle florals such as violet and rose, with present yet smooth acidity, obvious lees and consequential notes of biscuit and toast.
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4/3/2022 - Outplaying wrote:
Disgorged Feb 2016. This was pretty good but I never really wrapped my head around it. I found more apple and orchard fruit than lemon and citrus. It was lively, and crisp with some mineral accents. Ann didn’t love it and she thought there was something tart and weird tasting. I enjoyed this more as it warmed and I’d like to give it another go when I can pay more attention.
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1/15/2022 - domco wrote:
Wanted to like this more but needed just a little more fruit to balance out the mineral elements and searing acidity.
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1/2/2022 - VinoMomNola Likes this wine: 90 Points
More on the appley side of things, really nice piercing bubbles, for uncomplicated drinking, went great with grilled veggies as an appetizer.
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9/30/2021 - thesternowl wrote: 93 Points
“Anecdote” is an unusual wine from Moussé Fils, a grower that specializes in Pinot Meunier. Instead, the grapes for this wine comes from the Varosses lieu-dit which is planted 100% to Chardonnay. The wine pours a golden straw color with fine bubbles. There’s a remarkable nose of bruised pear, lightly toasted brioche, peaches, ginger bread, radishes and almonds…a little oxidative. On the palate, pear and peach with soaring acid and a bunch of minerals. Long dry finish. 02252016 disgorgement, 5G/L
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8/27/2021 - WetRock wrote:
Lean and minerally. Well, not that lean. Decent heft but tons of mineral character. Pure Chardonnay expression as if raised away from wood for the most part. Still in the vein of the nerdy for Champagnes. Good for that type.
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7/31/2021 - kaush Likes this wine:
As other noted, this was a dry, cool champagne with a clean nose, and a touch of lamoniness. Needed a bit of time to come into its own. This was the perfect aperitif for us on a hot July afternoon.
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4/6/2021 - WetRock wrote:
I didn't really dig this bottle as much as the last. It's a good wine but it doesn't put me clearly in Champagne. It's quite clean and mean without that richness you would normally associate with fruit from Champagne. One of those things that most often sets Champagnes apart from other sparkling wines. I got a sense of wood on the nose in the background along with some lemon skin. A touch floral. Grippy pith on the palate. Drying acidity making it very clean. Glassy and lacking that richness as I mentioned. There's something cool about the build here but as a Champagne it lacks a bit of something also. Depth if I had to sum it up. Would be very food friendly. Think oysters and raw veggies.
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3/21/2021 - osagher Likes this wine: 92 Points
Beautiful champagne, balanced minerality with brioche, slight nuttiness, pear on the nose, green apple on the palate. I could drink this all day.
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2/20/2021 - jviz Likes this wine: 92 Points
Really pleasant, deeply mineral BdB with minimal dosage (2.8g/L I believe). It has some grassy, green apple, and faint lemon notes. Lengthy, without any hint of bitterness. Of all the wines in the Moussé Fils stable, this has been my favorite to date.
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1/7/2021 - WetRock wrote:
09/19 disgorgement. I don't think I would put this on BdB blind. I was a bit mixed up when I opened this and thought it something else. I honestly thought it was Blanc de Noirs. It's more apple and berry than citrus. But there is some straight lemon on the palate. A lively palate it is. The fruit really jumps up for you to notice. That fruit is built over lively acidity. A note better on night one where it all came together better making it prettier and difficult to ignore. You notice the individual building blocks more on night two. I really like this. A unique expression of Chardonnay. The progression overnight will make me drink the remaining bottles over a shorter window.
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12/31/2020 - alanr wrote: 91 Points
Lovely, clean nose, crisp on the palate, essentially a nice, slightly effervescent, Chardonnay, bright, slightly lemony, some mineral. Quite enjoyable.
Half the bottle left, stoppered overnight in the fridge. I’m liking this more today, has a more classic nose, a bit more depth and complexity on the palate, mousse is finer, creamier, softer, longer finish, less lemon, more brioche. Today this tastes more like champagne, and less like merely a crisp, carbonated Chardonnay.
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12/25/2020 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Served with Christmas dinner, this was tight as a drum, showed zero fruit, and made my wife unhappy. Total bummer from a producer that I normally love. Stick to the Meunier bottlings.
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12/4/2020 - Andrew H wrote:
Disgorged Sept. 2019. Ample bubbles, fine mousse. Light straw. Taut and tart, with some lime zest a bit of chalk, hint of lemon curd and a whiff of pastry crust on finish. Probably better to wait.
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11/26/2020 - adnorthup Likes this wine: 91 Points
Disgorged February 2016. Classic BdB, lovey acid and lemon curd. Easy drinker and crowd pleaser for non-champagne drinkers at $45
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11/23/2020 - decaturwinedude wrote: 90 Points
Disg. Jan. 2019. Serious Champagne for the money. Cedric Mousse seems to do that well. Very pure fruit. Needs time to open. Poured my second glass and left it for 30 mins, came back to lovely texture and tropical fruit notes. Balance and finesse. Very fine. Will leave other two bottles alone for a bit.
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11/14/2020 - Frank Murray III wrote:
"Profondement Meunier"......well Cedric, not quite! This is your 100% Chardonnay. 😄. Within the Marne, inside the village of Cuisles, on a property where Pinot Meunier is king, there is a small plot at the top of the slope, planted to Chardonnay. If I remember the history correctly, this plot was planted by Cedric's father. He determined the 'terre d'illite', which is the green clay of the slope and property, it was way too deep for the Pinot Meunier roots to reach. Instead, he intuitively he replanted to Chardonnay, and it works! This is the January 2019 disgorgement, and I notice here that Cedric has reduced the dosage (what I recall as being 5 grams in other disgorgements), it is now 2 grams. And I like that shift, as the wine seems better balanced. White flowers, built around a core of pear, golden apple, lime and tangerine. The flavors pop, with a long, fruit driven finish. There is a purity of flavor here that is approachable and showy. The best bottle of Anecdote to date, too...and with a full day of air (under stopper overnight), the wine drinks similarly, but with an added note of pineapple that is sitting lightly in the background. This bottle is simply delicious.
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10/1/2020 - rustyRudy Likes this wine:
2 hm doasage, crisp lemon, bright, tart, 100% Chardonnay. Very nice
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10/1/2020 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nice toasty yeasty bright yellow apple and pear notes. Elegant and beautiful
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7/19/2020 - Diane (LI) wrote:
Subtle with fine bubbles. Creamy, lemon, and floral. Lovely and paired nicely with seared scallops.
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6/27/2020 - rhit wrote:
On the leaner end of the spectrum, with nice persistence. Lemony fruit at first, then a little oxidative richness the second day. This continues to impress, especially considering the price.
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5/15/2020 - rieslinghoarder Likes this wine: 93 Points
Disgorged 1/31/19, 2 g/L dosage. 12% alcohol. Poured into a Grassl Mineralite glass.
Robust mousse that dissipates pretty quickly, leaving residual tiny bubbles. Explosive on the palate with green apple, lemon curd, fresh cut flowers, chalky minerality, and a touch of brioche on the finish. Absolutely delicious bubbles.
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12/28/2019 - Martin K-F Likes this wine: 93 Points
Excellent. Floral and very drinkable.
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12/10/2019 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 93 Points
Granny smith apple, lemon-lime, mineral, aggressive mousse that dissipates quickly. Disgorged Jan 31 2019
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10/6/2019 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 93 Points
Most of the beauty will show after 1-2 days open. The charm lives within the amplitudes. It’s a highly calibrated precise weaving of chalk, saline, and yeast. Creamy piercing acid and Chardonnay typicity. Lemon, white perfumed flowed, yellow apple. Finish goes and goes.
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9/14/2019 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Same back label specs as the July 2019 bottle, as I picked them both up at Hi Time Cellars. The bottle last night was good, and I preferred it cooler, with more chill. That temp seemed to really bring the spine of the wine forward. As the wine warmed, a solid core of green apple emerged and it was a bit one noted, honestly. Nothing to retaste today.
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7/23/2019 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Bought 2 of these this week for $45 US. Last tasted at the winery in 2018, which I logged as NV. Despite Hitime Cellars listing this as a 2013 on their website, I can find anything to back that up so I am going to use NV as the designation. 100% Chard, disgorged August 2017 with 5 g/l dosage. This is the single plot of Chard that Mousse farrms, formerly planted to Pinot Meunier, but was ripped out and planted with the Chard which does better on this section of the vineyard where the green clay lies. This is what I would call mouthfilling, with plenty of green apple, ginger, lemon and some lees seasoning the wine. A cool swath of saline refreshes the finish. This is a generous, rounder bubbly that is easy to drink, with the right level of acidity and fruit to make it all work. Worth picking up a few more next time I am down in Costa Mesa. Of note, there doesn't seem to be much of this in CT so I am not sure how much makes it to the US.
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5/16/2018 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Mousse has so little Chardonnay in the range, but there is one single parcel, that was formerly Pinot Meunier but it performed so poorly that Cedric's father decided to figure out why. He dug down and found out that the green clay was nearly 160cm down, which was far too deep for the vines to reach. So, he pulled it out and planted Chardonnay, and the plot is called Les Varosses. This has a different mouthfeel than all the other Mousse cuvees, as the texture shows a polish and smooth expression. Creamy lemon, along with some apple. Quite BdB in tone and I enjoyed this, as change of pace for the rest of the PM and PN dominated range.
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1/29/2018 - peternelson wrote: 91 Points
Rocky, crystals, thorns, minerals up front with delicate lemon blossom floral notes, lemon curd and a drop of coconut meat; precise, edgy, perky with good "mousse", almost an impression of chalky tannins (from chalk soils in Cuisles?); With Terry Theise at Covel.
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1/3/2018 - AV2012 wrote:
What an intensity! All over the place, very concentrated, salty, mineral, wow!
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