Vanessa

9.5

Happy New Year’s Eve to you all! 🎉

To celebrate the holiday, we’re popping this special bottle of bubbles we’ve been eager to try. 😝

It’s Champagne Philipponnat’s 2004 vintage champagne made with 65% Pinot Noir and 35% Chardonnay hailing from a single clos – Clos des Goisses – surrounded by a traditional stone wall in the Village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ.  🍾

Talk about a singularity of place!  It was first produced as a single vineyard wine in 1935, a pioneering approach for a Champagne House in a land known for regional blending.

After fermentation, this wine aged on the lees for 10 YEARS in Philipponnat’s historic cellars in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ; a Premier Cru Village of the Grand Vallée de la Marne, located on the southerly flank of the Montagne de Reims, where Pinot Noir dominates like in the Grande Montagne.

Okay for the tasting note!  Wow. 🤯 It has pastry, brioche, nougat, and marzipan for days, next to toasted almond, lemon curd, white peach, baked yellow apple, dried chamomile, blossom, and wet slate notes. Despite its unequivocal richness, it has a spine of acidity lending balance and brightness.
 
Cheers to 2025; may it be filled with hope, health, joy, adventure, and amazing sips! 🍾🥂 — 4 months ago

with Deked1

Susan Sung

9.7

Dark berries and vanilla. — 4 years ago

Ryan McClellan

9.5

This got buried behind a myriad of whites on Xmas eve, 3 days later this thing is crazy good. All the blacks and blues you’re looking for, with an almost candied quality. Perfectly balanced and a super long finish. Fun now, prob awesome is another 10 years. — 4 years ago

with Deb and Chris

Richard Shin

9.2

Fantastic. Classic Nebbiolo. Great balance. Rustic w solid tannins. Loved it. Had on Xmas Eve w mushroom risotto, braised oxtail pasta. All so good. Great pairing. — 2 years ago

Bill Mowry

9.3

Saved this for a special occasion which happened as we all got together for Christmas Eve. Subtle, small bubbles and very smooth. — 3 years ago

with Amelia, Lou and 2 others

Bob McDonald

9.6

All prior notes apply. This is a terrific Art Series Chardonnay which ticks all the boxes. A great match with Mooloolaba prawns on New Year’s Eve. Artwork by aboriginal artist, Yukultji Napangati. Here’s to a better 2021. — 4 years ago

Daniel Martinez Cardenas

9.0

Merry Christmas Eve to all my Delectable friends — 4 years ago

Daniel P. Drake

9.1

On Christmas Eve another wine we opened was the 2008 Château LaLande-Borie. A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc from Saint-Julien on the Left Bank in Bordeaux.

On the nose was black cherry, blackberry, licorice, leather, tobacco and dusty crushed stone.

On the palate there was black cherry, blackberry, blackcurrant, cassis, spice, leather, oak, woody notes, earthy and crushed stones

This wine is full bodied with a smooth velvety mouthfeel medium+ acidity and medium to medium+ smooth rounded tannins that seamlessly move into a long earthy finish. I wish each and everyone of you had a wonderful Christmas and that we all have a exceptional start to the New Year ahead. Stay safe and healthy into this New Year. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 3 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.0

Merry Christmas to all on Delectable. Aperitif for Christmas Eve dinner. Quitessential Chablis aromas of shellfish, nectarine, apple, and smoke. Light to medium body, with an exceptional texture for the level. Heaps of oyster shell in the mouth with ripping acidity. My only qualm was a slight lick of oxidative muskiness in the persistent finish. Overall, a solid village. — 3 years ago

MaJ CappS

9.0

I mean, who doesn’t love a Rhône valley wine?

Classically lovely barnyard wafts, yet more finesse, like a farm to table Michelin rated restaurant, amidst cows and grad and methane gas.

A weighty wine, with dark berry overall, a hint of Brett, yet not enough to kill all of the flavor, cherry tart, menthol, pomegranate seed, flexing tannins.
A fine ripple these eve. Although bested at darts, I nearly came though in dominoes. — 4 years ago