2016 Paul Bara Champagne Grand Cru Brut Millésimé

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/14/2024 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Solid Champagne at a great price. Maybe a point thrown in just for the QPR.

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  12/10/2023 - peternelson Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This was good not great; too young? Also, poured last after the Vilmart CdC and Bolly GA. First '16 I've had. Newport Seafood Champagne Lunner. 91-92?

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  11/23/2023 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Another Kermit Lynch gem. This is absolutely a lovely bottle of Champagne. I thought of myself as a BdB lover but this has me questioning my palate with this coming in at 90 PN & 10 Chd.
  
  Open over two days and the second was the better of the two. This is great today but no doubt will lay down and continue to develop and soften at the edges.
  
  Dare I say this reminds me of Krug Cuvee.
  
  93/94+
  
  Drink or hold

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  8/19/2023 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 93 Points

  90 PN, 10 Chardonnay
  
  Over ripe/bruised yellow apple, over ripe pear, over ripe quince, cheese rind, fresh baked sourdough bread and white pepper on the nose. Intensity of aromas is a lovely medium +. The palate is even better - it adds wet stone, river rocks and seed bread; and the intensity of flavors is high.
  
  Medium + body, medium + acid. finishes crisp, clean and long. Has aging potential too, maybe 5+ years.

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  7/28/2023 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Retail $100. 90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay. I have made no secret about my love of champagne. Nor have I hidden the fact that my preferred style of bubbly contains a majority of Pinot Noir (although that stance, honestly, might be evolving). Last? My adoration for the town of Bouzy (one of the 17 Grand Cru villages in Champagne, the most of which is Pinot Noir) is unabated (again, with a decided nod to Mailly). Thus, when I saw this on the list at our favorite restaurant for champagne in Houston? (For the curious, that would be a'Bouzy [don't get me started on the accent.]) I was all in. But I wasn't. I was not feeling great, so we took the unopened bottle (we had already paid the "reasonable" $136 for it at the restaurant) with the design to drink it at home. Well, that was delayed a night and we opened it during a binge performance of Jack Ryan. Whoa. Straw to golden in the glass with a delicate sparkle and a hole lotta verve. Golden delicious apple, a touch of lemon curd, and just a hint of vanilla on the nose. The palate is even more delectable, with an initial, intense sparkle, followed by the zippy acidity, and then the bushel load of fruit. Whoa. This is still *very* young and has to calm down considerably, but holy cow, this is wonderful now. 94 Points now. In ten years? 96-98 potential.
  
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