NV Drappier Coteaux Champenois Urville Rouge

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 86.7 points

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  12/15/2023 - bitdrerik wrote:

  Jólasmakk Eðalklúbbsins 2023 (Marbakkabraut 12): Þetta vín var opnað með veitingunum, ásamt tveimur öðrum vínum. Engar formlegar nótur voru teknar með fyrstu þremur vínunum.
  
  Létt og þægilegt. Ég var bara svo spenntur fyrir chablis víninu að þetta fór eiginlega svolítið framhjá mér. Engu að síður ágætis vín.

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  1/20/2023 - bitdrerik wrote:

  Edrúarsmakk Eðalklúbbsins 2023 (Marbakkabraut 12): Opnuðum þetta með cheddarostum í byrjun smakks. Fór vel með ostunum. Talsverðir oxunartónar.

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  9/26/2021 - Collector1855 wrote: 87 Points

  20 Coteaux Champenois - tasted blind: Light garnet. Very light color. Interesting nose with farmyard, red fruit, some earthy elements. The palate is very acidic though, even for a cool climate wine lover.

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  5/14/2021 - forceberry wrote: 86 Points

  Made with organically farmed Pinot Noir, fermented and macerated for 2 weeks. Bottled with a minimal SO2 addition. No mention of the vintage nor even any obvious lot number on the label. 12% alcohol.
  
  Luminous, medium-deep and quite translucent ruby-red color with an evolved brick-red hue towards the rim. Red-toned and somewhat wild nose with aromas of ripe cranberries and fresh lingonberries, some bretty funk, a little bit of lifted orange rind character, light sappy herbal notes, a hint of leather and a sweet touch of VA that lends a somewhat liqueur-ish nuance to the nose. The overall feel is rather natty and makes me think that this wine might turn mousy with air. The wine feels lively, playful and rather sappy on the palate with a rather light body and somewhat natty flavors of crunchy cranberries and lingonberries, some ripe raspberries, a little bit of phenolic spice, light bretty notes of leather and barnyard, a hint of orange rind and a touch of tart and sappy - almost unripe - red fruit. The structure relies mostly on the quite high acidity, not on the rather gentle tannins that bring only a bit of firmness to the mouthfeel. Despite the almost unripe undertone in the fruit, the wine still comes across as quite ripe and silky. The finish is dry, moderately acid-driven and quite crunchy with rather long flavors of tart cranberries and lingonberries, some bretty notes of fragrant exotic spices and phenolic smoke, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light sweeter nuances of ripe raspberry and a hint of beet root.
  
  At first the wine felt rather weird, natty and even somewhat dull, but it has its nice, crunchy side and it does move into better direction as it opens up - the sauvage qualities don't dominate, but instead the fruit grows a bit in intensity, bringing some sense of balance to the wine. However, due to the natty overall character of the wine, it's quite hard to recognize the wine for a Coteaux Champenois - if served blind, this would feel like any anonymous natural wine with no obvious sense of place. Aging-wise the wine seems to hold some potential for future development, but as the bottle bears no indication of vintage or anything that could help in assessing the age of the wine, it's impossible to say anything conclusive at which point the wine would be at its best.

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  9/15/2014 - AV2012 wrote: 87 Points

  Coteaux Champenois tasting (Riga): Very clear PN colour with a brown tinge. Blackberry jam on the nose, lovely barnyard, kirsch. Berries, rotten berries, medium/high accidity, light tannins. (B+)

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