Jean Milan 2002 Champagne Grand Cru Slection Blanc de Blancs Brut Cuve Terres de Nol (Champagne) An acid-drenched pillow, simultaneously comforting and bracing, and dancing through fields of berries, their flowers, earth-driven ripe red-fruitedness, and sunny Georgia peach. Endlessly long. Rich like a winter ale, and oh so very beautiful. (12/09)
Egly-Ouriet 1996 Champagne Grand Cru Brut (Champagne) Disgorged July 2004. Powerful, strong, even muscular, but not overwhelmingthough I would opine that it has reached its full maturity, and should be put in the drinking queue ASAP. Copper toned old citrus, burnished but still antiqued, forms a core from which emanates a lush sheen of many polishings. Beginning to shorten, just a bit. (1/10)
Jean Vesselle Champagne Brut Rserve (Champagne) Unmistakably red-fruited, even more so than many ros Champagnes, with a corollary decline in the contributions made by both fizz and autolysis. Yet its not a simple wine either, its just somewhat primary, with crisp apple-infused acidity and a direct, blinders-on charge forward on the palate. Time should turn this even redder. (1/10)
Egly-Ouriet 1996 Champagne Grand Cru Brut (Champagne) Disgorged July 2004. Powerful, strong, even muscular, but not overwhelmingthough I would opine that it has reached its full maturity, and should be put in the drinking queue ASAP. Copper toned old citrus, burnished but still antiqued, forms a core from which emanates a lush sheen of many polishings. Beginning to shorten, just a bit. (1/10)
Jean Vesselle Champagne Brut Rserve (Champagne) Unmistakably red-fruited, even more so than many ros Champagnes, with a corollary decline in the contributions made by both fizz and autolysis. Yet its not a simple wine either, its just somewhat primary, with crisp apple-infused acidity and a direct, blinders-on charge forward on the palate. Time should turn this even redder. (1/10)