Tasted 30 December 2020
France · Champagne Flawed bottle
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 air, the animale nose…
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…
