Significantly better than the previous bottle, which is kinda unfortunate since it yet again shows the crazy bottle variation with Blin. This bottle was sans the feral funk that the previous bottle…
Jerome Blin's Champagne are frequently coated in this mousy/wooly type texture that is sometimes charming (more so with his Pinot Meunier wines) but more often than not, a bit off-putting. Such is…
It's a little confusing, since the front of the label states this is Pinot Noir Extra Brut, but the back of the label states "cepage: meunier et chardonnay." The internet "confirms" Pinot Noir, but…
Not flawed, so that's an automatic bonus. Medium intensity, with lemon, travertine, and yellow pear (pulp and skin). It's relatively simple, but fresh and clean all the way around. With air, its…
This 2013 has held up quite nicely. Admittedly, I've had hit/miss with reliability on some of Blin's wines. Flawed bottles have been an issue more than a handful of times. This seems to be more true…
Disgorged 05/2019. This was a bit more of a coppery performance this time around, with golden raisin and grilled lemon notes providing the lion share of the flavor profile. Notes of red apple flesh,…
This continues to be a go-to-all-day-long Rosé for me. Crisp strawberry, lemon juice, and orange rind/spray play tetherball with saline and travertine notes to make for an airy and spritely Rosé.…
This is a bristly showing at first pass, with notable tension and energy spitting prickly pear, red apple skin and flesh, copper, bitter lemon rind, lemon zest, black cherry water, and ginger flavors…
Strawberries, orange rind and juice spray, lemon spritz, grapefruit, raspberry water, and wet stone notes culminate into a beautifully refreshing Rosé with ample cut and acid to cunningly steer it…
A nicely developed expansion of lemony yellow citrus notes are given frame with chalk and white lemon seed elements. The Chardonnay "still wine" fruitiness is balanced well with the bubbles and…
Red apple flesh, olive oil, and ginger roll along the palate with the assistance of yellow citrus (grilled lemon) and limestone notes, making for a broad and balanced delivery. A pleasant bead keeps…
Good, friendly, fun, tasty, and all that. It's a little more bready than I typically prefer, but thankfully it is far from a doughball yeast bomb. Medium all the way around here. Serve to your…
Less of a tense and nervy showing as was seven months ago, this clean and precise Champagne also offers a nice degree of gravitas and flavor to accompany its higher register execution. A worthy…
A year since my last bottle. A similar performance, with a big house Champagne feel to it, reminding me of a Krug without the plantain flavor that usually comes with that producer (I prefer this…
Similar to the 2008 in style and delivery, with an affable execution with medium richness and a fuller-friendly mouthfeel. The 2011 has the slight edge over the 2008 in that the 2011 has a little…
I had to open another bottle of this since the epic fail the previous evening where its busted sibling was all about dog-in-the-rain and floppy-cardboard-in-a kiddy-pool flavors.
Pours an apple juice/slightly coppery-yellow color. Wet cardboard on the nose. Wet newspaper and dog fur on the palate, with an extremely bitter alkaline finish. Little-to-no detectable fruit. With…
One of the best Rose Champagnes I've had in a long time...perhaps ever. Perfectly balanced flavors and just the faintest kiss of dry sweetness to keep it from being too tart or arid. Wild…
Lemony citrus, brûlée, and brioche notes interplay with some more serious wet rock and kirsch flavors, with the brighter and richer yellow fruits predominantly prevailing on the palate (nice…
More fleshy and enveloping than many other Pur Meunier in its class. Perfectly balanced, with a rolling push of grilled lemon rind, quince, white cherry water, limestone, and slight bark. Finishes…
