Color is a clear orange gold. 45% Pinot Noir, 45% Pinot Meunier, and 10% Chardonnay; 24-36 months on the lees. Mousse is large bubbles, not fine in any way. On the nose, orchard fruit, almond paste, orange zest, wet stone. Palate is rich, with red apple, maybe a hint of peach, almond, pleasant vanilla sweetness on the finish. A lovely, if not a bit basic, NV Champagne and a good QPR. I’m generally a fan of BdN and BdM, and this contains many qualities of those that I like (full bodied, more powerful fruit, etc.).
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A very enjoyable bubbly! A great value. If you like yeasty champagnes, this wine is not for you. This was nicely dry, with a flavor profile similar to Blanc de Blancs. I would buy this again.
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Decent champers for the price. Bright acid with some ripe apple and citrus notes. Perhaps a little higher on the dosage but well balanced and a pleasant apertif.
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(NV Gardet Champagne Tradition Brut Chigny-les-Roses) Hello friends. The Eliminator is back! v18.0 contains a set of nine wines, and they run the gamut in price, origin, and style. Based on the name of the final American Gladiators challenge (see link for an excellent example of the original Eliminator, and also for an epic blond ‘80s mullet), this is where we eliminate extra bottles that have accumulated for one reason or another (some reasons purposeful; others accidental/stupid/I-don’t-wanna-talk-about-it). A reminder: we handle this offer a little differently than most. These will be first-come first-served, and the upper order limits will be the number of extra bottles in the warehouse. So, if we have 15 bottles left, and you want all 15, and you’re the first to jump in, they’re yours. This gives slight advantage to longer-term list members. Our offers are throttled, and it takes about an hour to send offers to the entire list. So the old-heads get a bit of a head-start (much like the Gladiators Eliminator, but with fewer tassels), but list newbies will be nipping at their heels! Please note: we’re going to update inventory throughout the day via a linked PDF. Hopefully that will avoid the frustration of ordering an already-sold-out item. And with that, let’s begin. Offered in December, at pricing well off this Champagne’s $50 release, and no surprise: we sold out the vast majority on first offer. We have a meager 53 bottles remaining to start the day (see updated availability here). It’s 45/45/10 Pinot Noir/Meunier/Chardonnay, full of laser-focused citrus, salty minerals, apples, and just a touch of signature Pinot Noir earth. Champagne in the $30s is a rare treat indeed.
(NV Gardet Champagne Tradition Brut Chigny-les-Roses) Phenol55 REMINDER: Full Pull has partnered with Phenol55 for *optional* storage services for our list members. P55 is a full-service wine cellar less than ten minutes from our warehouse, in the subterranean basement of the Malt House in the heart of Georgetown. See here for more details, and then contact Phenol55 if you’re interested in signing up. ----- Hello friends. Each Friday in January (I know, but Feb 1 is within a rounding error of a January Friday), we’re reoffering popular wines from the past year or two where we still have limited stock remaining in the warehouse. These are all immediate gratification plays, with no long waits for the wines’ arrival. Today’s wines come from our year-ending series of instant gratification offers. The vast majority of those offers ended up allocated and sold out, but for a handful of wines, we ended up a little long. I know many of you opened these bottles over the holidays, so here’s one more chance to access them, now that you know how delicious they are. Offered in December, at pricing well off this Champagne’s $50 release, and no surprise: we sold out the vast majority on first offer. We have a meager 53 bottles remaining to start the day (see updated availability here). It’s 45/45/10 Pinot Noir/Meunier/Chardonnay, full of laser-focused citrus, salty minerals, apples, and just a touch of signature Pinot Noir earth. Champagne in the $30s is a rare treat indeed.
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4/10/2024 - wmccone54 wrote: 88 Points
Simple, uninspiring, and uninteresting, but for <$20 USD for a split it’s hard to complain. Good.
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2/18/2024 - Bubblesearcher23 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Color is a clear orange gold. 45% Pinot Noir, 45% Pinot Meunier, and 10% Chardonnay; 24-36 months on the lees. Mousse is large bubbles, not fine in any way. On the nose, orchard fruit, almond paste, orange zest, wet stone. Palate is rich, with red apple, maybe a hint of peach, almond, pleasant vanilla sweetness on the finish. A lovely, if not a bit basic, NV Champagne and a good QPR. I’m generally a fan of BdN and BdM, and this contains many qualities of those that I like (full bodied, more powerful fruit, etc.).
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12/14/2023 - winestine Likes this wine: 92 Points
A very enjoyable bubbly! A great value. If you like yeasty champagnes, this wine is not for you. This was nicely dry, with a flavor profile similar to Blanc de Blancs. I would buy this again.
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10/27/2023 - edog22 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Nice bubbles. Apple, flinty mineral, yeast, light cream. Balanced acidity. Pleasant sipper.
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10/18/2023 - PAX ROMANA Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decent champers for the price. Bright acid with some ripe apple and citrus notes. Perhaps a little higher on the dosage but well balanced and a pleasant apertif.
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