2010 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Grand Cellier d'Or

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  6/7/2023 - Ghoulardi Likes this wine:

  Elegant, harmonious, incredibly well integrated and developing beautifully. This is a remarkably enjoyable champagne at present. I imagine it will continue to age gracefully, but now is a fantastic time to drink if you don't prefer champagne's long aging qualities.

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  11/19/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Realised on looking this up to write this note that I didn't learn the lesson from my first bottle, and drank this quickly out of flutes rather than with air from larger glasses. Oops. Still a lovely Champagne, although less impactful than it perhaps would have been, with rich but balanced fruit, some honeycomb, both smooth and energetic in feel.

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  11/3/2021 - KeithAkers wrote: 93 Points

  Birthdays and Bolognese (My place, Portland OR): Nose: From the get go, this is so balanced and aromatic with red apples, spiced pears, meyer lemons, warm dough, pastry tones, biscuits, brioche, quince, yellow flowers, mineral notes, and some custard. There is excellent depth and the tones have melded together beautifully into a seamless quality.
  
  Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with crisp, high acidity. There is excellent depth, texture, and balance showing off the class that this possesses. The tones of red apples, spiced pears, quince, meyer lemons, custard, brioche, warm dough, and yellow flowers.
  
  Overall: This is just in a beautiful place as it is moving into the more mature phase while still showing off a lot of freshness. Everything is right in balance at this time and it is in a perfect window for drinking.

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  8/14/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This bottle was a tale of two halves. The first couple of glasses, drunk from flutes and with a freshly-opened bottle, were no more than pleasant; I was slightly disappointed. I then gave it a go in a white wine glass, and there was an immediate improvement in perceived concentration, followed by a delicious blossoming with air for the remainder of the bottle. What had been crisp and tasty but essentially mute became perfumed, floral, buttery and extremely long, with a hint of umami. Occasionally the wine gave the impression of being too rich, but every time the acidity came in and whipped things back into line, like accelerating a RWD car out of a corner. A really accomplished Champagne that, in the end, felt like it was at the start of a delicious drinking window.

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  12/31/2020 - Rechrom wrote: 93 Points

  Lovely. In balance wit some bread and and pear citrus with a long finish. Drinking very well right now, but seems to have years left. Is great with food, and great alone. Lovely.

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