2010 Charles Dufour Champagne Blanc de Blancs "Le Champ du Clos" Brut Nature

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  10/14/2016 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  100% Pinot Blanc, non-dosé.
  
  Pale yellow-green color. Attractively sweet-toned and fine-tuned nose with aromas of apple jam, honeyed richness, perfumed floral tones, some peachy fruit, a little bit of apricot pit and, especially after some air, a wild, waxy hint - possibly a touch of brett here? The wine is pure, crisp and relatively light-bodied on the palate with lean, bone-dry taste that is contrasting the sweeter-toned nose quite noticeably. There are flavors of unripe white peach, yellow apple, some chalky minerality, a little bit of apple peel bitterness, light waxy tones and a hint of something wild and funky. The wine is moderately high in acidity with very fine, quite persistent and pleasantly creamy mousse. Overall the wine is nicely lean, dry and crunchy for a Pinot Blanc with great sense of balance. The finish is somewhat wild and quite complex with slightly bretty tones of leather and somewhat waxy, chalky minerality, tangy green apples, some sweeter golden apples, a little bit of pithy grapefruit bitterness and a hint of sappy herbal greenness. The fruit tones fade away rather quickly, but the bitterness and funky tones persist for quite a while.
  
  A very lovely, enjoyably distinctive and very balanced Pinot Blanc Champ that nicely ticks some of the natural wine boxes without coming across as too sauvage or excessively funky. A lovely effort and a prime example why Champagnes made from Pinot Blanc should be bone-dry: the variety is so ripe and fruity to boot, a higher dosage only makes the wine excessively fruity and masks some of the moderate acidity away. Priced according to its quality at 55€.

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  9/20/2016 - AV2012 wrote: 89 Points

  Pinot blanc Champagne: (Disgorged June 2013).
  More toasty than Feb 2013 disgorgement. Fuller bodied, less acidity. Louder and broader, liked this much more.

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  9/20/2016 - AV2012 wrote: 87 Points

  Pinot blanc Champagne: (Disgorged Feb 2013)
  Classic oxidative nose of freshly opened bar of soap. Ascetic, high acidity, even tartness. Lean, tart and precise.

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  7/4/2015 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Blind Tasting of 13 champagnes from 13.06.2015 (83-93 points)
  
  tender rose in colour like a rose de Saignee, spicy as clove and lavender in nose and palate but not with disturbing tannins, middle + finish, balanced good acid structure, perfect as a food companion, I guessed BdN, but it is 100% Pinot blanc, 90-91 points
  
  for me 7th place in the ranking

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  2/13/2015 - aquacongas wrote: 89 Points

  It is a pinot blanc champagne, in the nose pears and floral notes, spicy, in the palate a litle Bit broader, the finish a litle Bit short, minerality as fullbodied mouthfeel, nice fruit notes, I expected more a finer champagne

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