Late night Maison Dakota. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Disgorged 2017. Appearance is clear, pale intensity, gold colour. Thin legs. Fine bubbles. Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of yeasty lees, brioche, baked apple pie, vinous red cherry apples. Developing. On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of lovely honey beeswax, apple pie, vinous red cherry red apple, biscuity brioche toast, minerality background. Long crunchy finish. Very very good quality. Always loving Eglys. Broad palate presence kept well in check with good acidity tension and lovely honeyed goodness already showing. Will continue to develop well.
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July 2023 DG. I had slightly higher hopes for this bottle, alas more time is needed. Outshined by a Selosse VO. It was crisp and showed red apple skin, fine and vinous. Very good but in better company.
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Dinner at 312 Fish Market (Chicago, IL): Base vintage 2013. Disgorged July 2021, 3 g/L dosage. Despite the relatively low dosage, this certainly has a palate presence that I really enjoy. Rounded and richer, but at the same time, bright laser-focussed white fruit here. Made in a bigger style the way Egly does, and very enjoyable for it.
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Home-drinking. One of my favorite wines and a staple of my cellar. May it go on like this! I have had near epiphanies with this wine however no two disgorgements show the same. Tonight is Sept 16 which would point to a 08 base plus earlier vintages blended. I have stopped playing the base vintage game with Egly as I believe the deft wine-making mostly transcends the vintage character. On this showing this is not the best rendition as I find that it loses verve rather quickly with a discreet mousse. Taste lingers on with great sapidity but when a Champagne finishes too close to a still wine there is a "je ne sais quoi" missing. Not quite complete. I have had older VPs with more power e.g. the 12 and 15 disgorgements. May be down to bottle variation. Still a mightily fine drink.
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(NV Egly-Ouriet Champagne Grand Cru VP) Light yellow color with abundant, steady, tiny bubbles; appealing, chalk, white chocolate, apple nose; tasty, poised, creamy textured, tart apple, mineral, chalk palate; medium-plus finish 92+ points
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5/3/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 94 Points
Late night Maison Dakota. Drank in Gabriel Standart. Disgorged 2017.
Appearance is clear, pale intensity, gold colour. Thin legs. Fine bubbles.
Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of yeasty lees, brioche, baked apple pie, vinous red cherry apples. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of lovely honey beeswax, apple pie, vinous red cherry red apple, biscuity brioche toast, minerality background. Long crunchy finish.
Very very good quality. Always loving Eglys. Broad palate presence kept well in check with good acidity tension and lovely honeyed goodness already showing. Will continue to develop well.
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4/28/2024 - jviz wrote: 93 Points
July 2023 DG. I had slightly higher hopes for this bottle, alas more time is needed. Outshined by a Selosse VO. It was crisp and showed red apple skin, fine and vinous. Very good but in better company.
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4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:
Marmite aromas and cherry pit to the palate. 2021 Disgorgement. Excellent Champagne. 70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 84m on lees. 10% new barrel
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4/18/2024 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at 312 Fish Market (Chicago, IL): Base vintage 2013. Disgorged July 2021, 3 g/L dosage. Despite the relatively low dosage, this certainly has a palate presence that I really enjoy. Rounded and richer, but at the same time, bright laser-focussed white fruit here. Made in a bigger style the way Egly does, and very enjoyable for it.
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4/16/2024 - palfr2 wrote:
Home-drinking. One of my favorite wines and a staple of my cellar. May it go on like this! I have had near epiphanies with this wine however no two disgorgements show the same. Tonight is Sept 16 which would point to a 08 base plus earlier vintages blended. I have stopped playing the base vintage game with Egly as I believe the deft wine-making mostly transcends the vintage character. On this showing this is not the best rendition as I find that it loses verve rather quickly with a discreet mousse. Taste lingers on with great sapidity but when a Champagne finishes too close to a still wine there is a "je ne sais quoi" missing. Not quite complete. I have had older VPs with more power e.g. the 12 and 15 disgorgements. May be down to bottle variation. Still a mightily fine drink.
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