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  • Country ranking ?

    860
  • Producer ranking ?

    14
  • Decanting time

    20min
  • When to drink

    Now-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Grilled Guinea Fowl with lemon-butter sauce, Truffle risotto & Scampi pasta with ginger

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The Story

"In the 1950s my grandmother set aside this park-like space next to our house in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ with vines, flowers and fruit trees, for our enjoyment. Realising this outstanding terroir's potential, my family decided to plant the first Pinot Noir vines here in 1964. We tried using the Pinot Noir to make white wine in small Burgundy barrels: an outstanding champagne was about to be born. After several years of painstakingly tending the vines, ...

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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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Average Bottle Price

2020
460€

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Written Notes

The same could be said for the 1996 Billecart Salmon Clos St. Hillaire. Dapper Dave was all over its ‘oxidative’ style, and despite nice spritz and zip to its long finish, its different style stood out from the crowd, not in a better way, just different (95).

  • 95p

6750 bottles. This wasn’t bottled in 1997 – the base wine was left on the lees a year longer. Disgored in April 2007. Dosage 4 g/l. This is intense with keen acidity still apparent, under the rich, harmonious toast, toffee and nut flavours. Very compact and crystalline with lovely peach, apricot, honey, spice and toasted almond flavours. Amazing complexity here with reall finesse allied to richness. 97/100

  • 97p
En hektar muromgärdad vingård planterat 1964 med 100 procent Pinot Noir och prissatt som grannarna Bollinger VVF och äldre årgångar av Clos des Goisses. Gjord på fat och helt utan malolaktisk jäsning och dosage. TASTINGNOTE Lite outvecklad och något av en besvikelse som nylanserad efter att jag smakat ett magiskt fatprov. Persikomättad och fylld av läder, plommon och choklad kommer mer mogna exemplar av detta vin att bli strålande.
  • 95p
Deep golden colour. Very rich, over, developed, even oxidised nose. Ripe fruit, expansicve, expressive. Dry, chunky, lacks livelyness. Full, cloying and long. But parker champagne. Puere red fruit, pure pinot expression, not hugely complex, but massive and impressive. Ei supervaiheessa juuri nyt
  • 94p
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Origin

Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Champagne

Grapes

100% Pinot Noir

Drinking temperature

7-9C

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