NV Vilmart & Cie Ratafia de Champagne

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  8/15/2022 - WST wrote:

  Finally, a dessert wine Marybeth likes! Less sweet and certainly less viscous than most fortified wines, this was dominated by delicious almond and toasted coconut notes, plus ginger and pomelo. Elegant and balanced.

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  6/7/2021 - Alykhan V Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Completely different experience than my last glass
  This is complex and delicious
  Yellow apples, red apples, oxidative salty nuts, baked apple crisp, pantry spices
  Medium body
  Medium sweet
  Excellent to outstanding length
  Not cloying at all
  Very very enjoyable and I hope to drink this again

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  9/17/2020 - peterchoy wrote: 91 Points

  Appearance: Bright and clear, the wine is of light amber colour, with greenish rims and legs.
  Nose: Clean, with medium intensity aromas of floral notes of rose, citrus fruit of lemon zest and orange marmalade, dried fruit of raisin and fig, sweet spice of ginger, oak notes of toast, oxidation notes of caramel. The wine is developing.
  Palate: Sweet with high acidity, the wine has high alcohol, full body and medium intensity flavours of citrus fruit of orange peel and lemon zest, dried fruit of raisin and fig, floral notes of rose, maturity notes of honey, sweet spice of ginger. The wine has a medium (+) finish.
  Conclusion: Very good quality Ratafia de Champagne with a reasonably intense nose showing good complexity, with lemon zest and orange peel starting, followed by fig and ginger, with roses throughout and good toasty and caramel bringing on the finish. The wine is strong in alcohol, but having good sweetness balanced well with the acidity, having decent concentration of flavours and a fairly long finish. It is ready to drink now and can maintain for another 10-15 years.

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  9/16/2020 - Alykhan V Likes this wine: 89 Points

  It tastes like what it is, a fortified grape spirit. I normally enjoy Vilmart champagne, btw.
  Citrus and yellow apple aromas and raisins. Some oxidative notes.
  Medium bodied
  Medium sweet palate
  Very good length
  This is a decent wine but nothing particularly special despite the progeny

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  6/2/2018 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Champagne night Part 2 (The Blanchard, Chicago IL): Very nice to the end of a long evening drinking champagne.

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