(Vilmart & Cie "Cuvée Création" Brut) ($120.00) The ‘99 goes from strength to strength; it smells like cheesy puff-pastry snacks but shows a new and stunning fruit, as the best ‘99s slim down and get quieter and more refined. The complex finish would hardly have seemed possible. The vintage is maybe ready to make fools of us – us – who insisted it was ineluctably simple. In fact this wine is on the way to being – maybe even – sublime.
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By Terry Theise
(Vilmart & Cie "Cuvée Création" Brut) ($120.00) The ‘99 goes from strength to strength; it smells like cheesy puff-pastry snacks but shows a new and stunning fruit, as the best ‘99s slim down and get quieter and more refined. The complex finish would hardly have seemed possible. The vintage is maybe ready to make fools of us – us – who insisted it was ineluctably simple. In fact this wine is on the way to being – maybe even – sublime.2011 Champagne Catalog, 6/1/2011, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)