One of the best bottles of Champagne I've had this year, if not the greatest. This is a perfect wine, there is no way to improve upon what's here. The nose is fresh, complex, mature, expressive, clean, focused, just perfect. The jet black fruit of Ambonnay has given way to golden apples and brown butter and pastry dough and sea salt, and the package is so much greater than the sum of its parts. On the palate the wine is impossibly clean and darkly fruited, and also zesty and bright and balanced and razor sharp. This is a truly beguiling and wonderful wine, and an advertisement for holding onto Goulte bottles, if you have them.
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12/14/2016 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:
One of the best bottles of Champagne I've had this year, if not the greatest. This is a perfect wine, there is no way to improve upon what's here. The nose is fresh, complex, mature, expressive, clean, focused, just perfect. The jet black fruit of Ambonnay has given way to golden apples and brown butter and pastry dough and sea salt, and the package is so much greater than the sum of its parts. On the palate the wine is impossibly clean and darkly fruited, and also zesty and bright and balanced and razor sharp. This is a truly beguiling and wonderful wine, and an advertisement for holding onto Goulte bottles, if you have them.
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4/10/2014 - Burgaddict wrote: 91 Points
This has developed wonderfully. Balanced fruit, sweetness, acidity, minerality. Long finish. Excellent stuff.
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8/29/2009 - bevort wrote:
Precise and tight. Very focused and very young. Good backbone. Needs time to show more flavours and body. Give it at least a couple of years.
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8/3/2009 - theeb wrote: 90 Points
Sehr fruchtig, vielschichtig, nicht zu trocken. Sehr fein.
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