2013 Francis Boulard Champagne Rosé de Saignée Extra Brut

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  12/31/2022 - arvidpalmqvist wrote:

  I had 3 bottles of the 2012 vintage of this cuvée and enjoyed those very much, thus my expectations of this one was set quite high. I'm sorry to say it did not live up to my expectations. Probably a vintage issue. It was very fruity (i.e. it lacked other flavours and complexity) and it felt like the acidity was slightly too low, and/or it has seen too much malolactic fermentation resulting in a quite indistinctive and too round end result. Not a bad bottle at all, just it was not better than a BdN for 10-15€ lower the price. Was slightly better as a food wine than as a general appetizer, with the roundness and all. Deg 2020.

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  12/16/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Disgorged lot 01, 2020. NOSE: immediately the smell is broad, and of brittle, fatty nuts. It’s savory, bright, and dry. Vine-matured fruit, perfumed red, fermented and seasoned in buttery oak barrels. MOUTH: it’s more hushed and patient than I expected after smelling it. Comfortable, easy unfolding of broad leaves, stylishly filled with text. Sub-grade: long, lazy drapes of fennel and lemongrass, and insurgent lemon peel cured in pomegranate salts. The texture is luxuriant and airy. Scarcely an edge, yet flowing with productive detail. The longer it stands open, and drinks, the more impressive it seems. The finish is not an embalming, indelible resonance of flavor. It comes and goes as it pleases. It’s not long, and it’s not short. The appetizing hook on the end is more bitter (stone) than sour.

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