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What is that? A Champagne for ants?!
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Lost most of my sense of smell and taste due to COVID a few weeks ago so pulling these out because… I don’t want to waste other ones? So no notes just anger and disappointment.
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When the local has the splits on sale and I get 2 for $210 vs $290 for a bottle, what can I do? 
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La Rogerie Lieux de Vie No.02 - quite robust and full bodied, lot’s of orchard fruit and some very slight oxidative notes. Good balance even if it leans to a more full bodied style, has enough verve to keep it from being cloying. This is quite enjoyable but will probably be better with time in the bottle, will try my next bottle in 2-3 years.
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Another grower I’m liking more with each bottle I open. My bottles of their vintage Liesse d’Harbonville and NV Granite have all been stunning.
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You have huge hands! I love Krug GC in this format. Which iteration was your bottle?
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Ryan,
Sorry to hear that. I hope it resolves quickly! For now, I guess you’ll notice the textures.
There was an article in JAMA a few years ago that suggested olfactory training can help. Choose four scents (e.g. essential oils) like rose, lemon, clove and eucalyptus. Smell each for 20 seconds twice a day, at the same time each day. I’d also check with an ENT to see it there are any other options. Good luck.
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Date night last night. This was fantastic, popped at cellar temp and followed through dessert without a chill. It just kept getting better. My first time with the Oenotheque, now I need to source more. Not too easy to come by out here.
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I thought Champagne splits were 187 ml?
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Much appreciated! Will give it a try.
Celebratory lunch. I love DMY, and this was a perfect bottle.
(Please ignore the centerpiece - a yearly gift from my brother-in-law and his girlfriend that we have as yet been unable to discourage. This year’s looked like it belonged on a coffin.)
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I’m starting the smell training using Moxe. I can make out the smells but my wife thinks the smell is too strong.
Edit: I wouldn’t say I have no smell just not real good.
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Ole tomato girl’s 17th birthday! We’re having this with appetizers-one of my very favorites; this is my oldest disgorgement of this, it’s still showing p-lenty of acid (in a good way)
For FMIII-
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It’s so good.
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That’s just smart thinking!
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A home cooked meal and a birth year magnum of 1998 Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Rare to celebrate our daughter’s birthday. This bottle was exceptional, showing a perfect balance of freshness and maturity, richness and finesse. Compared to the 2002, it’s less doughy and exuberant but has great charm and refinement. An array of aromas and flavors: citrus, apricot, brioche, fruit blossoms, and more. It improved with air and warmth.
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Hadn’t checked in a while, but cool to see @Brian_Tuite doing the 15 Vilmart Oeno’. That is a good wine, Rat. We did one a few months ago blind and it was best when it was all the way unfolded with air. I own a bottle, too. Then @CJ_Beazley doing an older LF BdB. Appreciate you listing me there with the photo…I regularly keep this wine in my house. I tend to drink them fresh, with some 2023 disgorgement still in the cellar but nothing like you did there with 2019. CJ, have you tried the Nature de Craie bottling? If so, did you like it? If not, source one. Yeah, it’s usually $20 or so more than this BdB, but you get a similar style, with no sulfur and Vertus fruit. I drink both BdB and Craie, probably should pour them blind this coming year for the group and see their thoughts.
Anyway, my contribution for the thread is the Piconnet that follows. First go with the BdN, and I like it. Fresh, flavorful and the cool soil impression off the south.
- NV C H Piconnet Champagne Blanc de Noirs Brut Nature - France, Champagne (12/21/2024)
Opened yesterday with dinner, reviewing now the wine a day later with a fresh pour at home. Getting to know this producer now, based in the south, the village of Neuville-sur-Seine. This is the second bottle of the range I have tried (the other the Charles rose, which I liked). $59 US. This is 100% Pinot Noir, base is 2021 (don't see any reserves indicated so might be all 2021), no dosage, disgorged March 2024. And I believe they are certified biodynamic. Pours with a golden/peach color. This started off dumb and kinda shut down last night but by the time we were through dinner, it had added complexity. White pepper and bread dough aromas. Green apple, mineral, fleshy dark berry, like a blackberry that is intense but without the fleshy texture of the fresh fruit. Finishes with fresh lime and a light but present austerity of mineral that keeps it just crisp enough. This is worth a rebuy from Caveau in my next order.
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2021 disg.
100% Pinot Noir.
1,5g dosage.
This is wonderful. Red apples, a bit of strawberries and a lovely note of toasted rye bread. A bit of oxidative nutty notes as well. No rough edges even though the dosage is low. The 2018 fruit probably helps here.
I am sure this will age well, but I really like it now as well.
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