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9.8

The 2013 Comtes de Champagne is a towering Champagne, as it was last year. Rich, sumptuous and explosive, the 2013 soars out of the glass with a captivating mix of tropical fruit, apricot, passion fruit, baked apple tart, mint and yellow flowers. It is one of the most explosive, extroverted Comtes I have ever tasted. Impressive. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, March 2024)
— a year ago

Gor

9.6

Deep gold to amber color. Beautiful clearly defined nose of green apple, hint of almond powder marzipan and buttered toast. Medium body with high acidity. Leads to an ultra long finish with mouthwatering fresh acidity. Really awesome stuff. Out of Magnum. — 5 years ago

Ed Chin

8.9

Tons of apple — 6 years ago

Bob Dylan

9.7

Dry floral funky so good — 7 years ago

Derek Cohen

Wine sales, The Wine Shoppe at Green Hills

9.5

Light golden color, nose with cream and baking spices, fresh apple pie. Palate has gold apple, green melon, vanilla, little bit of oak spice. Little bit rich (partial malo) but not overwhelming. Medium acids. round finish. has potential many more years of maturation. #latour #grandcru #cortoncharlemagne — 9 years ago

Adam DeFiglio

9.0

Straw yellow
Med - body
Candied lime, green apple skin, plastic aromas
Meyer lemon, green apple skin, slightly grassy flavors
Med + acid
Crisp finish — 10 years ago

A R

9.5

Fantastic value. Green apple, citrus, pear. Great nose, great finish. — 11 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

It’s Miller time. Well…actually Billecart time. I like this more than I buy it. One of good cuvées easily found in 375ml.

The body creamy, layered, nice c02, bruised golden & green apple, ripe Bosc pear, pineapple flesh, tropical melons-mango driven, lime & lemon zest, cream soda, cream, white spice-ginger, bread, yeast, brioche, soft but grainy moist chalkiness, sea spray/fossils, slightly chard sourdough toast, wet/softened alluvial, limestone, wet river stone, notes of flintiness, yellow lilies, white orchids, fruit blossoms, jasmine, rainfall acidity, excellent balanced fruit & earth, tension, structure with a juicy two-minute polished finish that falls onto beautiful minerality.

BTW, home grown tomatoes with Companion Bakery wheat sourdough, lightly toasted w/ olive oil, burrata, Tondo balsamic (stunning), olive oil & fresh basil never gets old. — 2 years ago

Mira Rodgers

9.5

Beautiful notes of honey, pear, golden apple with musky, mushroom notes. Very light style with notes of oxidation and an afterthought of carbonation. — 6 years ago

with Kamee

Pat Carroll

10

An all time fav, apple, light peach, spatlese sweetness. No petrol notes. — 7 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.3

Dont drink the last two bottles, note to self! Another zelig of whites, so much development to go but is drinking prettily now. Still young w much snappy apple-ness, encased in a yeasty & mineral pearl. Had w mussels in saki & parsley, & simply sauteed trout. Yum — 8 years ago

with Owen

Rebecca Fletcher

9.5

Pear, Apple, brioche, lemon zest, white pepper and white flowers. M+ acid, m body, citrus and minerality. Rich full body, creamy. Long finish. — 10 years ago

Sofia Jansson

9.1

Apple flavors. Alcohol taste. Great champagne! Hejdå huset i Torekov:(... — 11 years ago

with Christian

Jared O'Connell

9.2

Good price at warehouse so I snagged one for wiener schnitzel dinner w/ cateloupe, prosciutto, radicchio &fig salad. Opened to give it a lot of air. Cream soda dum dum, Fuji apple, hint of gasoline but not a lot. Goes onto a grapefruit/citrus thing and a nice cream soda finish. Mineral and wonderfully acidic. Need to find older bottles! — 4 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Very grassy. Key lime pie, green apple, and a load of primary yeast flavor. This is beautifully balanced and I think it will benefit from some time in bottle. Disgorged 2019 — 5 years ago

Michael Winterbottom

9.4

New world Chablis emulation but with a little more ripe fruit character and butter notes. Butter mochi, ripe green apple, cooked apples. Really tart finish with duality if fruit character. 0 new oak usage in this wine, fermented in used oak barrels and battonage for a year. Not your typical Napa chardonnay by any means but elegant and pretty. Perfumed and pretty. — 7 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.0

Only Randall could imagine this unique combination. — 8 years ago

Mike Fifer

Writer The Wine Monologues

8.9

Quite simply a crowd pleaser. Notes of peaches, apple, nectarine. Nice acidity and balance. And a great QPR. Well done Charles Smith yet again. — 10 years ago

Rob Moose

9.2

Subtly perfumey and very easy to cash — 11 years ago

Max Coane

9.0

Not corked. Apricot. Melon skin. Yellow apple. A little oxidized but not in a bad way. — 12 years ago