2012 Larmandier-Bernier Champagne Grand Cru Les Chemins d'Avize

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  5/6/2022 - Michigan Mostberg Likes this wine: 93 Points

  From 57° cellar into ice bucket for 30 min. Extremely crisp, clean, and focused while screaming, "Chardonnay". Lemon and yellow apple for days. Seemingly all fruit, no hint of spice. More chalk than river rock or saline, and dry pie crust preempts any hint of dough. At 10 yrs this still seems very, very young to my palate... and very delicious!

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  4/24/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 94 Points

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  Side by side with Avize and Cramant. This is as often the most spicy one. I like the expression of the terroir. Smoky and lemon zest. 93
  
  Avize is more lean and precise. Well balanced. More on the citric aromas. 94
  
  Levant is the roundest and with the most density and length. 95
  
  All of them are in a great drinking window.

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  2/10/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  Tasted blind. Excellent freshness with bruised apples notes showing oak aging. Citrus, orchard fruit. Lively and bubbly, very young still so wait a bit before drinking. An excellent, BdB, Avize in style, which means luckily not as lean as Mesnil.

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  7/25/2021 - rhit wrote:

  Concentrated with relatively mild bubbles. Baked apple, dough, and chalk. Last glass felt the most structured and tasted best. A little pricey.

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  5/8/2021 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  The Gang Drinks Blind (Mesa Verde Country Club in the OC): First of two. Have not had this cuvee previously but I am a devoted fan of the L-B wines so this is now part of my journey with them. 100% Chardonnay, farmed biodynamic from two old vine (roughly 50-60 year old) plots in Avize, grown on chalk. 56 months on the lees, raised in wood with 2 grams of dosage, disgorged March 2018. Drank over two nights. On the first evening, this showed juicy with lemon, mint, gentle in tone with peach, orange, yellow apple and ginger. Shows some of the chalk in the finish but it seems pretty integrated into the wine to me. On the second night, which was the last few ounces that had gone still, the wine shows a lime pith and touch of oxidation in the aroma. But what I can finally now assess pretty well is the fruit composition. Lots of pear, reminding me of the bartlett pear that used to come in the can that I ate s a kid. Yellow apple, fresh squeezed lime, kiwi and nectarine. Overall, this drank wonderfully when still and my opinion is that this is in a very good place right now to drink and enjoy.

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