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  • Country ranking ?

    1 220
  • Producer ranking ?

    5
  • Decanting time

    No
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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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 o...

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Medium-deep lemony colour. Perfumy, fragrant nose of flowers and lemon. Herbs, vanilla and noce autolytic toastiness. Delicate and feminine.Light and fresh, energetinc, well developed integereates. Lovely acidic backbone. Not too much. No hurry. Charming feminine champagne. charred.
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Vertus, Champagne

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