The Tb points given to this wine are the world’s most valid and most up-to-date evaluation of the quality of the wine. Tastingbook points are formed by the Tastingbook algorithm which takes into account the wine ratings of the world's best-known professional wine critics, wine ratings by thousands of tastingbook’s professionals and users, the generally recognised vintage quality and reputation of the vineyard and winery. Wine needs at least five professional ratings to get the Tb score. Tastingbook.com is the world's largest wine information service which is an unbiased, non-commercial and free for everyone.
Wine Description
The Story
Nicolas Feuillatte’s iconic cuvée, capturing its quintessential style, Palmes d’Or Rosé Intense is only revealed through the prism of the vintage when a truly exceptional harvest year enables its primary qualities to truly shine. A wine defined by time, capable of stirring supreme emotion, offering texture and flavours of great finesse. A rare ‘saignée’ rosé, where some of the red wine juices are ‘bled’ briefly from the skins, this intense, well-structured cuvée champions not only the vintage, but also the intrinsic character of a unique Champagne. A Champagne like no other that transcends the very notion of vintage and embraces eternity. Audacity, sensuality and intensity define this fine, expressive Champagne, with its complex aromas of red fruits and flowers. An iconoclastic cuvée, defying convention and presenting the very best of Champagne, in an extraordinary moment.
A CHAMPAGNE OF UNIQUE CHARACTER
• Rosé de saignée, with its pronounced, sensual colour.
• Remains in the cellars for almost a decade.
• 100% Pinot Noir from two cru vineyards; delicately spicy Grand Cru grapes from Bouzy allied with the intense fruitladen quality of Riceys.
• Tremendous ageing potential. supreme emotion, offering texture and flavours of great finesse.
Vintage 1996
Up to this point 1996 has been considered a fantastic vintage which produced classic wines; the best since 1990. A long, dry summer produced grapes of record ripeness with record acidity. Some, including myself, question how the 1996s are aging. The wines are generally characterized by a distinctive rather lemony acidity and very good attack, but some wines now seem terribly austere, while others already seem dangerously short of fruit. None of the subsequent vintages are quite as distinctive as 1996, which in the more successful cases should almost certainly be drunk after the 1999s.