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  • Country ranking ?

    502
  • Producer ranking ?

    4
  • Decanting time

    15min
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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The Story

Les Chétillons is situated in the Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil sur Oger and enjoys an almost perfect aspect. Three parcels of vines, ranging from 40 to 70 years of age, yield the grapes used to make this legendary cuvée. These vines, impacted by the quality of the terroir and our mass selection practices, provide the definitive statement of the particular style of this village, a style which resides in mineral power, incredible purity, and a...

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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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Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

color

Medium

Written Notes

Wonderfully concentrated and persistent with hints of honey and mushrooms. Complex, layered, luscious – it does not pretend to have the opulence that Krug’s Clos des Mesnil can offer, but it has, instead, a brilliant almost crystalline elegance and focus, with citrus notes. Oystershells, grapefruit and a bone dry finish over a creamy texture. As good a champagne as I think I have seen from 2007.

The 2008, obviously a more highly regarded vintage, was all minerally chalk notes, oystershells and grapefruit (these notes came from completely separate occasions, so the similarity in what the wines offered is compelling evidence of the DNA of Les Chetillons). Vibrant and persistent and impeccable balance. This wine has such a long future ahead of it. I gave them 97 and 98 respectively.

  • 98p

Nervously close to perfect. I can’t think of a thing I would add or take away to this complete wine. It is walking on a tightrope of acidity, tension, expansive minerality and restrained fruit. There is finesse and power here at once. Devastatingly, my one and only bottle. But worth it. INCREDIBLE.

  • 99p
Good looking normal size bottle. Colour is medium. I paid around 10-30€ a bottle. Good value for money.
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  • 98p
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Mesnil sur Oger, Champagne
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