2014 Charles Dufour & Françoise Martinot Champagne Bistrøtage B.14+1 Extra Brut

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  12/23/2023 - Bathtub58 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Initially, red fruits and sherry -- the sherry profile and aromas were a detractor. After being open for one hour, a fresher profile began to emerge with hints of stone fruits and bread in the background, all of which helped to balance out the sherry notes. Consumed over two hours. Medium body. Moderate complexity with a lingering finish. I prefer the B14, which had fewer sherry notes and was more in balance.

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  6/28/2023 - wine.chung Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  Well made, but this bottle was incredibly oxidized in character, there was good fruit on the palate, but the nose had a boiled cabbagey smell that we only previously encountered from a 30 year old runer veltliner from Austria we tried a month ago.. not sure if this was bottle variation or what, but not very pleasant to drink! Drank over 5 days, and the aroma did not go away.

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  12/4/2022 - thkim Likes this wine: 91 Points

  내추럴와인이라 그런건지 블랑드누아라 그런건지 오픈직후 마셨을때 좀 독특한 뉘앙스가 있음 좀 호불호 갈릴 수 있다고 판단했는데 시간 지나면서 맛과 향이 풍부해짐 음식이랑 같이 먹기 보다 와인 단독으로 마시는게 맛과 향을 느끼기 좋을 것 같음 extra brut인데 좀 당도가 있다는 느낌이 들었음 우연히 발견하면 또 마셔볼 의향이 있음

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  3/12/2022 - originalverkorkt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Color: intense straw yellow with light copper reflections and fine mousseux.
  
  Nose: Bistrøtage B.14+1 is very much in the style of Charles Dufour, who always works with a slight oxidation. Therefore, there are some crumbly apple notes at play here. However, they are not the focus of this wine. It's more the red berries, some barberries and some very crisp peaches, plus grapefruit wedges and zest and an elegant hint of brioche. The time that the base wine, as well as the Champagne itself, was allowed to age longer than in the B14 has taken the Champagne to another level. The wine is finer, more elegant and deeper without losing typicality in any way.
  
  Palate: On the palate, Bistrøtage B.14+1 is dry and pleasantly mellow, juicy as ripe stone fruit and blessed with an underlying power that only gradually becomes more present. The Champagne elegant and finessed, spicy and slightly tart with ripe citrus notes and zest, red berries and herbs, some bread dough and lime. This is a punchy, tonic Champagne that has shed the barrenness of the earlier fill and gained in finesse, silkiness and fine spice in its place.
  
  InfO: Bistrøtage B.14+1 is a Blanc de Noirs made from 100% Pinot Noir from the Vallée de l'Arce on the Côte des Bar. 8o% of the fruit comes from the 2014 vintage, 20% from resèrv wines. The wine was fermented spontaneously and has undergone malolactic fermentation. It aged in wooden casks of different sizes (75%) and in tank. The tirage took place on 20/10/2016, and after the second fermentation it was aged sur lattes until 10/11/2021, when it was disgorged. The shipping dosage is less than 3 grams per liter. Charles Dufour did not sulfurize the champagne. The vineyards from which the grapes come belong to Charles' mother Françoise, so the filling also takes place under her name.

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