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Sounds clean and not too advanced for its age. Am I reading you correctly?
100%
This has matured and achieved a new level of excellence. Dense, polished and balanced. An exquisite Côte des Blancs.
Have you tried the 2007 Warren? Thoughts and comparison against this 2006?
Many thanks!
From another thread.
No, I’ve only tried the 1995, 2004 and 2006. They’re all really different, although the ‘95 and ‘06 share more similarities than the austere 2004.
We have a couple of these. Drink or hold, Kyle?
Yesterday, I called in sick from work to sit at home in my underwear and pick my nose. After an afternoon of perpetuating traumatic injury to my olfactory bulb, I decided to watch television. I must have surfed the three streaming services my cell phone carrier hoists upon me for four or five hours while unironically mocking the viewers of such trash for wasting their lives. I eventually gave up on that, played a NYT’s word game for a few minutes, and spent the rest of the night reading about the inhibition of the Serotonin Transporter in Minnows.
Today, if I may quote JB Smoove, I Carpe Diemed that shit! Pierre Gimonnet Special Club 2012 with fat, meaty, buttery, salty west coast oysters is my new reason for living. The wine, tasted alone before the oysters were served, tastes and smells like oysters. When paired with an actual oyster, it was hard to tell where the wine ends and the oyster begins. The wine opens with a squeeze of lemon, sea salt and iodine to the front and middle and washes the flavor of the oyster right off the palate, and then a laser beam of acidity (sorry for the trite metaphor) shoots the back of the throat, violently splattering any remaining oyster molecules everywhere, ultimately merging into a Voltron like mass, fanning out in the throat in a powerful display of benign violence.
This was disgorged in 2018. It’s open for business, but is many years away, I think, from anything approaching maturity. It’s got the Reubenesque frame you would expect from 6 years on the lees, but this is far from opulent. It’s a lean, mineral wine with minimal fruit. It’s not austere, just fresh and cleansing. Powerful. Subtle. As amazing as it was with oysters, I almost wish I drank it alone to contemplate its subtleties uncontaminated.
Thanks for letting me liberate you from this “corpulent bottle,” @Warren_Taranow.
Maybe hold? This bottle didn’t seem very knit together.
I found the 2007 to be a lot more open and less lean compared to the 2006. I did taste these wines about a year apart though, so the 2006 has surely evolved from when I tried it two years ago. Back then it felt like biting on a lemon.
New release of this! Bottled in 2013, 100% GC Chardonnay from Mesnil made with perpetual reserve and has also seen oak. This edition is Brut Nature!
Insane crisp and fresh acidity with so much depth, complexity and power from the oak/solera… Amazing QPR.
Not technically Champagne, but I figured it was still on point for this thread. My wife and I opened our first Cabot Vineyards blanc de blancs sparkler, a 2016 from the Berserker Day 3 pack we got earlier this year. We ordered a bunch of sushi and got their chicken karaage which is fried chicken bites. In short, the wine went fantastic with the meal. I think both the seafood and the fried chicken made the wine better and definitely vice versa. I liked the wine on its own but brut nature might be a little too bracing for me to drink a whole bottle by itself but this seemed like perhaps the ideal pairing. As the wine warmed up a couple degrees from the refrigerator it seemed to get better and better. I got a taste of lemon curd but not sweet. It was creamy in a way that I love. Bright but without too much acidic taste. Really great and for the $50 per bottle I paid, it was well worth that and more to us. We’re probably going to order some more soon.
Hey @Cris_Whetstone, it’s not “wack”. Far from it. 
(inside joke, forgive me).
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Dude, it has wack right on the label. Twice bitten, forever shy.
I’m solo this week, and worked six straight days. While seeking an indulgence, I reaffirmed my fondness for half bottles of Krug GC. This was a 168eme, 2012 base. Elegant and energetic, just what the doctor ordered for a Saturday night.
Jerome Lefevre Playing with Fire. 2018, a white base of 90% Meunier and 10% Pinot Noir, with added Pinot Noir. Disgorged Feb 2022. Only 900 bottles.
Very light for a red addition, pretty floral style, has some weight of the vintage, and light acids. A bit of a curiosity but an enjoyable one.
2020 Clergeot Sébastien Champagne Petit Clergeot Brut Nature
Back label says 2020 base with zero dosage, but does not feel like zero dosage at all. This was very good, the balance of fruit and acid was superb, not an acid bomb, but also not an overly fruity or yeasty wine. There is a lot of freshness on the palate, citrus fruits but also a gentler, mellower fruit like cantaloupe melon. It also had hints of kiwi and a good mineral backbone. If you can get this at a decent price ($60 and below), this would be a great buy. Excited to try more of this in the years to come.
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