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2020

Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Grand Cru Extra Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Cramant

Tasted 23 March 2025 Champagne · Grand Cru

This bottle was a lemon hound tonight. Riper and more succulent than expected. Lemon curd and. lemon. Lacked some of the electricity of previous bottles. Stemware was pretty weak, so that may have been a contributing…

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5 July 2026 Another strange bottle of this. I seem to be shooting 50/50 on these Dhondt Cramants. It is the only one that hasn't delivered with the consistency… 9 March 2026 This bottle was much better than my confusing experience with this wine back in November. Today, the experience was akin to the bottle I had a year… 23 November 2025 This took three-to-four days being open to resolve some its weirdness, with a super bitter mineral element trampling the fruit almost completely on… 29 June 2025 I prefer this on the colder side, where the lemon and melon flavors are better focused and honed. When it warms in the glass, they tend to flatten… 12 March 2025 Blind. 21 February 2025 Wonderfully balanced, with Meyer lemon, lemon curd, honeydew, yellow pear, and wet white travertine notes hitting the palate with an instantly…
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