2005 Gaston Chiquet Champagne Special Club Brut

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  8/15/2021 - bjlcrucrazy Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful Champagne with Ecklers and mom at Churchills to start. No sign of rotten potato taint that some of the 05's have been plagued with. I feel this is possibly peaked but very good

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  2/22/2021 - TXRhoneRanger wrote: 95 Points

  Man oh man, words fail a little to descube this one. I think it is quite mature with a few more years left until complete balance, but I'm happy where it was this day. With cheese. Golden yellow. Bountiful mousse, fine bead. Citrus meets earth. Med + mouthfeel. Very integrated. Disg 2013 so plenty of time to settle in. Long length. Really like G. Chiquet's Special Club bottlings as they are constantly outstanding.

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  7/10/2019 - alanh13 Likes this wine:

  Wow this is good. Just the right amount of maturity yet very fresh. Quintessential. For me, it's slightly reminiscent of Boizel 2000 Joyau de France which I love although not quite the same level and lacking the intensity of that.

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  2/21/2018 - alanh13 wrote:

  Excellent as before. A point. Lots of life still left but developing some nice mature notes now. Perfect with smoked salmon and went very well with a rich butternut squash & sage tortellini with pumpkins seeds, pine nuts nad beurre noisette - it actually made a chablis taste weedy and acidic with the tortellini. So glad I have more bottles of this!

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  2/2/2018 - alanh13 Likes this wine:

  Classic champagne, nice maturity but still lots of life. A touch of browned apple and some pastry. A little spice, complex but still not fully open, has much more to give I think. Long finish.
  Gets better as it warms up, 14C much better than 11C and at 16C it was beautiful. It tastes like a textbook matured champagne (as in 5-10 years) in a way I describe as very champagney!
  This is 13 years and is absolutely a point in terms of my champagne preference, in way that I typically like 2010 Chablis and 2012-13 oaked Burgundy.

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