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    929
  • Producer ranking ?

    1
  • Decanting time

    15min
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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Vintage 2015

A wet winter and mild spring gave way to an exceptionally dry summer from mid-May onwards. Hot weather prevailed until mid-August, when the skies opened again. Rains gave way to fine, cool, yet sunny weather for the first two weeks of harvest, which commenced on August 29th. The 2015 vintage has a lot of common denominators with the 2003 vintage but the 2015s are showing a better balance of weight and freshness with their average potential alcohol level of 10.5% and total acidity of 6.9 g/l. The quality and ageing capacity of the vintage has been questioned because of the low acidity, but to me the structure of the wine is not the problem; the aromatics are. Initially as vins clairs, I found the wines to come with ample, attractive fruitiness. The vegetal, particularly ash-like aromatics were subdued but have since then become amplified, especially in the vintage bottlings. Drought issues are considered to be the culprit to these widely spread aromatic issues of the year. I have come notably down from my initial assessment. However, most vintage and prestige cuvées are yet to surface from the cellars and their quality will make or break the vintage.

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Yes!! Nailed it! Finally, one of Benoit's wines was just as good as he himself has always claimed. As you know, I am extremely fond of the sesame oil-like perfume that Selosse has in his vineyard wines. I have often found similarities with that note in many growers who use equivalent methods, but it is only in this exciting vineyard wine from Ambonnay that the perfume has appeared in an identical way. Lovely! Of course, there is also a terroir-typical Ambonnay note that draws years of sensual red fruit with orange hints. It is only a certain oxidation bitterness in the aftertaste that lowers the score below the 95 mark. There is thus a certain risk that the wine will not age as well in the same way as with Léclapart, for example. That note could have been easily avoided with a few grams of oxidation-suppressing sugar.

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Origin

Ambonnay, Champagne

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