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  • Country ranking ?

    1 704
  • Producer ranking ?

    14
  • Decanting time

    15min
  • When to drink

    2020-2025
  • Food Pairing

    scallops

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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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What an incredible vintage we seem to be dealing with! An incomparable natural sweet roundness and width without becoming sticky and too obvious as in the 2005 vintage. Here we have a very neat and generous specimens from Guy Charlemagne.I have probably never experienced such a ssy and youthful Mesnillésime at the launch as this 08. The scent is faint and cold yet so long and the taste is biting fresh and mineralized. Does it sound sad? Absolutely not. This will be great one day, but well have to wait quite a while at that moment.

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Champagne, Champagne
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