2008 R. & L. Legras Champagne Grand Cru Saint-Vincent

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/17/2024 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points

  Women Who Wine & Their Arm Candy (Estelle, St. Paul, MN): Light gold color. Drank a glass over 30 minutes. Had this last about 10 month ago. This was fairly similar to that bottle. Showing some maturity, good weight and some broadness. The fruit seem a bit more golden with apple mainly and some citrus notes, ginger, brioche, nougat, and chalk minerality with the same oxidative character as before. Very good, no danger here. 92+pts.

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  1/1/2024 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- popped and poured --
  -- tasted non-blind over 1 to 1.5 hrs. --
  
  Nice breadth and depth --- nothing earth-shattering or amazing, but undeniably excellent. Good acidity. Rich, but not too heavy -- some chewy breadiness. Showing some light-to-moderate aged character, but in no danger of rapid decline. Drink or Hold.

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  10/22/2023 - tastark Likes this wine:

  Drinking really well. Fantastic nose of apple pie, lemon, and chalk. Wonderful acidity on the palate, along with a lot of stone fruit, lime, and apple. Long, youthful finish. Drink or hold.

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  10/5/2023 - Kim Gerner wrote: 95 Points

  2008 top champagnes - horisontal wine tasting dinner (Rest MG (kg arr)): Second 2008 horisontal champagne half blind tasting dinner. First time June 2021. Back then the vintage was extremely youthful. How is it now? An almost unbelievable development in just 2 years. As a wine enthusiast I must simply surrender. I was skeptical about the drinkability at this point for this extreme vintage. That skepticism was proven wrong. 2008 can definitely be enjoyed now. For me, it's one of my really great tasting experiences. And there has certainly been many... Add to that, the vintage is only in its initial stage of maturation and therefore still youthful but extremely charming and open. I really look forward to tasting the 2008 vintage once a year in the coming many years experiencing the tertiary notes develop.
  
  Notes of lemon, ripe apple. Still youthful. Rating based on performance right now 95+. Vintage 1996 clearly better than 2008 (see my note on that one)

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  6/24/2023 - Sundbyberg wrote: 92 Points

  After an hour the acid shows up and mixes well with the fruit. On the mature side, with an obvious touch of red apples. A good champagne, but I have had better 2008:s and the 1996 vintage of this champagne was also better.
  
  I will keep my second bottle until 2028 or so and see what happens. 92-93 pts.

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