NV Charles Dufour Champagne Bulles de Comptoir #4 Vinorama

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  11/1/2017 - hinterland Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Lovely, a nice touch of brioche

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  9/2/2017 - chrishsh Likes this wine: 92 Points

  lovely champagne with a hint of apple aroma. very refreshing though not a lengthy after-taste. it was perfect for a cool late summer night!

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  11/14/2016 - astroman Likes this wine:

  Floral mineral and stone. Lacks mid palate.

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  3/21/2016 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  A biodynamic Champagne that is a blend of Pinot Noir (55%), Chardonnay (35%) and Pinot Blanc (10%). Fermented spontaneously, aged in an old Bourgogne oak barrel. Bottled in October 2014, disgorged in January 2016.
  
  Pale lemony yellow color. Ripe, sweet-toned and slightly wild nose with aromas of sweet toffee oak, some sappy herbal green tones, a little bit of crunchy gooseberry, light sour cherry tones and a hint of ripe kiwi. The wine is crisp, youthful and bone-dry on the palate with quite light body and racy flavors of sappy herbal greenness, tart green apples, some sweeter toasty oak notes, a little bit of ripe golden apple, light bitter notes of grapefruit pith, a hint of buttery richness and a touch of cookie dough. The bracing acidity makes the wine quite nervous and lean with quite incisive structure. The finish is long, crisp and mineral with racy flavors of sappy herbal greenness, steely minerality, some buttery richness, a little bit of tart green apples and a hint of toasty and slightly nutty autolysis.
  
  A somewhat weird and even slightly contradictory Champagne that combines oak-influenced richness to racy, bone-dry and slightly sappy green fruit. The wine manages to pull it all off quite well, but the overall style is a bit all over the place and still looking for focus. The overall style is almost painfully young, so most likely it will take some more years before the wine has found its balance. Interesting, but perhaps not that remarkable - nevertheless, good stuff with nice potential for future development. Priced according to its quality at 35€.

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