2009 Mailly Champagne Grand Cru Brut Millésimé

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  4/16/2023 - Ro_gue Likes this wine:

  Might be overdue on this year! Fruity, tasting less "crispy" though, always kept in Liebherr. Subtle and elegant.

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  5/23/2021 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Retail $65. 75% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay. We drink a ton of Mailly. A. Ton. But most of it (by far) is the non-vintage brut. We also throw back a fair amount of Mailly Grand Cru Rosé (the wine after which we named our dog). This vintage Mailly? A rare treat, indeed. We broke it out for a dear friend from San Francisco, our first guest since the pandemic. Whoa, quite the nose emerges from this slightly golden elixir with deep yeasty, croissant-like aromas that slightly obscure the lemon curd beneath. Yowza. The palate is even more enticing but also reveals that this wine has a ways to go. Exuberant, lively, rich, engaging, yowza. This is one of the many reasons that I love champagne; this is close to a dozen years old, but it is as fresh as the proverbial daisy. Yet, it is also a wine with a bit of age, a bit of swagger, a bit of "je ne sais quoi." Yeah, this one has it, if you give it the time to express itself. Rich, vibrant, expressive, young. All of these attributes apply and inform me that I opened this a tad (at least) too soon. Give it a year. Hell, give it a decade. Thank me later.
  
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  6/27/2020 - Apollo5710 wrote: 90 Points

  Decided to open based on some of the other notes, and agree that this is probably not getting better. Light and diluted at first, though it gained weight and depth after 2 hours, at which point it was at its best; typical Pinot-driven notes of lemon pastry, apple, cherry, and chalk. Quite balanced, but not especially complex or powerful.

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  2/24/2019 - thewiz Likes this wine: 91 Points

  (Disgorged in 2016, 75% Pinot Noir and 25% Chardonnay, dosage 6 gr/l)
  Lovely yellow colour with stream of very fine bubbles that lead way for the maturing nose showing red apples, minerals, citrus and some lovely mint chocolate as well. Smoothing acidity with a rounder maturing red apples fruitiness before citrus mineral and a nice buttery feeling that comes after some time in the glass. This is already drinking very lovely, especially in a wider glass to let it breathe, but should give even more maturity and pleasure if kept in a cold cellar for another decade.
  (Best 2019-2029)

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  5/24/2018 - casoe Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Still very nice, and confirm my last note, but a little less impressed this time.

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