NV A. R. Lenoble Champagne Grand Cru Les Aventures Blanc de Blancs

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  3/30/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 93 Points

  2008/09 assemblage.
  
  One of the classiest champagnes I have had for a long while. Ever changing in the glass, goes through citrus, to Meursault-esque Burgundian (this is very much a wine), through cream soda and yeast / brioche / touch of sherry some tobacco. With fantastic length. Tremendous.

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  1/20/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Unknown disgorgement. Deep yellow, subdued mousse. Striking nose that I can't quite place but some toasty oxidation here. Rich and creamy, good length, but fairly neutral flavors.

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  1/7/2023 - vintage_whine wrote:

  Showing a pronounced Madeira character, it’s bright and dense, but also sort of clunky and overdone. Trying too hard

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  9/24/2022 - ChDonath Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2002/2006 version with 3g/L, therefore decent bottle age.
  
  Opens up quite tempting with sweet exotic fruit, montrachet/meursault vibes here, pineapple and caramel.
  
  Taste though... very austere, heavy oak bitterness, needs to integrate definitely.
  
  Quite pleasant front and mid until you reach the oak bitter brickwall.
  
  Before the oak kicks in its kind of fresh without any fruit sweetness though.
  
  Only quite some time the aftertaste reveals a bit of fruit on the tongue.
  
  Some cacoa notes...
  
  With time integration gets a bit better.
  
  Works decently with well spiced food though.
  Then acidity and oak gives good crunch and balance
  
  A bit fermented apple notes
  
  With more time oak balances out and its tasty and the dosage works (unfortunately, this happens at the end of the bottle).
  
  Definitely not an aperitif. Probably best to open 1-2 days before planned consumption.

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  2/26/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Weekend at Bernie's; 2/25/2022-2/27/2022 (Vero Beach): A bit of a surprise and entirely possible that we picked up one of our bonus bottles and brought it to a main event, but so it goes. The upside is I'm pretty sure this had some age on it. It had just a hint of the nutty and slightly carmelized notes. Nothing like the much older ones. But didn't taste like recent release. Enjoyable and esp as the first bubbles on a boat on a hot Feb afternoon it was just delicious.

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