Stephen Redenbaugh

9.2

Crisp, medium gold. Just a bit of sulfur on the nose. Ripe apple, core, peel, seeds and all. Medium weight and dragging a bit of green stem with it. Good… but not great. A bit clunky and not very elegant. Hoping my second choice for NYE shows a bit better. — a year ago

Michael Phillips

8.9

Hint of seeetness with good body — 3 years ago

Peter Rosenfeld

9.4

Complex light layered. Delicious. 2011 — 4 years ago

Scott Rowe

9.1

Wrattonbully showing off with a generous amount of fruit packed into 1 bottle of wine.
#selfisolation #socialdistancing — 4 years ago

Shengli Hu

9.0

This is for Eric Rodez's Empreinte Noire 2007. A blend of 62/38 Pinot Noir/Chardonnay from best parcels from six vineyards of the best year - 2007. Strawberry, red cherry, honey, honeysuckle, and pronounced toasty characters. Low acidity, medium+ intensity and finish. — 5 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.2

Need to drink more SA Mourvèdre — 5 years ago

Keith Watson

9.4

West London Wine — 5 years ago

Beau Carson

9.2

Definitely on its last legs, but there's still life in this bottle. Sweet cherries and raspberries with a caramel sweetness to it. Drinking a part of history. — 6 years ago

Adam Kincaid

8.9

Not a typical fruit forward gamay. Very stemy, herbacious, some pepper. Meh… — 2 years ago

with Jillian

Zack Hall

9.3

Cool stuff — 2 years ago

K

10

Very good champagne! Easily drinkable light and dry. Had it for the NY and enjoyed it — 3 years ago

Katie Wincor

9.4

Medium ruby; pronounced intensity, strawberry, raspberry, red cherry, blueberry, violet, vanilla, black pepper, menthol, youthful; dry, medium (+) acidity, medium tannin, medium alcohol, medium body, raspberry, red cherry, blueberry, violet, vanilla, black pepper menthol, medium (+) finish; can drink now, but has potential for ageing, outstanding — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Very oaky nose along with pretty black cherry, licorice, spice and menthol. Aromatic big man that wood. Palate is dense and sweet with nice balance and texture. Good 2012 volume and amplitude. Compact. Nice mineral finish. Give it 3-5 years for oak to integrate on nose. It has on palate which is nice now. — 5 years ago

Kyle Zeman

10

Wow, incredible nose. Cola, cherry, cocoa — 5 years ago

Neil Valenzuela

9.0

Deep ruby color. Aromas of blackberry, peppercorns and graphite. Soft black fruit, strawberry and a hint of toasted oak. Very yummy! — 5 years ago

Christian Fischer

9.5

Gold color. Vibrant and still going strong, definitely another 10-20 years left in the 2000 vintage. Unmistakably a Charles Heidsieck but much more refined and harmonious. A wonderful bottle to drink; the QPR is a bit challenging, but no regrets. — 2 years ago

Susan Stribling

8.9

Crisp, minerals and stone fruit. Good on a warm afternoon at an al fresco bush lunch in Botswana. Selinda Camp — 3 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.6

Big weekend holidays call for big wines. Happy Memorial Day weekend.

Time to make the new Riedel Vintage Sommelier flutes really prove their worth.

The nose reveals; golden & green apples, sour lemons, lime juice to almost candy, touch of apple cider, overripe pineapple, lime, tangerine notes, stone fruit-apricot & peach, caramel, sweet, cream butter, vanillin, very beautiful & powdery chalkiness, saline, sea fossils, delicate, grey volcanics (almost ash), bread dough, light yeastiness, chunks of just fruit in marmalade, jam, hints of candle wax, honeysuckle & comb, gentle white spice with yellow lilies, jasmine, spring flowers, fruit blooms with some mixed in cut greens.

The body/mousse is gentle & delicate...super micro oxygenation/bubbles. She shows her beauty as she glides over the palate. More golden apple than the nose, green apple, sour lemons, lime zest to almost candy, touch of apple cider, overripe pineapple, lime, tangerine notes, stone fruit-apricot & peach, caramel, vanillin, sweet, cream butter, very beautiful & extremely, powdery chalkiness, saline, sea fossils, delicate, grey volcanics (almost ash), bread dough, light yeastiness, sesame oil, silvered almonds, chunks of just fruit in marmalade, jam, hints of candle wax, honeysuckle & comb, gentle white spice with the perfect light heat & palate penetration with yellow lilies, jasmine, spring flowers, fruit blooms with some mixed in cut greens. The acidy is perfect and gentle. The finish isn’t quite as good as the 02 Krug we had on my birthday in March but, it’s a close relative. It’s super; refined, delicate, unbelievable knitting, well balanced, elegantly polished like 75 degree sunshine on your face and persists softly like baby skin for minutes.

An amazing cuvée!

Photos of; the Champagne house of Egly-Ouriet, A-frame bottles in their cave, Owner/ Francis Egly (since taking it over from his father in 1982) in one of his Ambonnay Grand Cru Vineyards and vines around the estate.

Producer notes, Elgy-Ouriet was planted in 1946 to Pinot Noir in pure-chalk soil of ‘Crayères.’ Unquestionably one of the finest, south-facing terroirs in Ambonnay. Les Crayères is the top single vineyard of the estate, containing the oldest vines. 100% Pinot Noir from the renowned Les Crayères known for its extremely shallow topsoil and chalky bedrock. Completely barrel fermented, and aged 70 months on the lees. It's a blend of the 2010 and 2011 vintages and was disgorged in July 2018 after 72 months sur lattes. — 4 years ago

Rebecca Cai

8.9

Found this wine at tasting in Boston urban grape shop. Great minerality, lemon and citrus but also slightly buttery as well — 5 years ago

Conrad Green

9.0

Lemon and bright steely minerals. A slightly saline, tasty champagne. Very fresh and tightly wound. — 5 years ago

with Bex and Larry