Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: very high toned. Brioche but elegant brioche.

Palate: lovely caramel. Rich. But elegant. Delicious. So fresh.

Long.

Fass selections. — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

The OG before the label change. Just stunning and so toasty. Brioche, saline and super elegant. Such fine bubbles. So so good. Likely the first vintage I ever sold. — 4 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

16/17 blend. Bottled April 2018. Disgorged Oct. 2022. What a color. Now that’s salmon. Nose is gorgeous strawberry, watermelon, minerals and it’s so clear and so clean. Just gorgeous. Floral and airy. Very attractive and provocative nose. Unreal concentration and the fruit is all sour cherries, sour sweet apples. Wow this is concentrated and the bubbles are so fine. This is superb. Sapid and dense but oh so light on its feet. Just terrific fruit and purity. This will improve with air but so much to like. The fruit is almost fruit skins. Some flesh but mostly skin. Such balance. Wonderful inner mouth aromas. So delicious. Saline finish. Can’t wait till this opens more. Wow this is salty! So good. Fleshing out with air. Tremendous architecture to this wine. Now there is citrus, and gorgeous florals and deeper watermelon. The nose is like a 9.7. Also a feral element that adds complexity. Amazing. So chewy and dense and just insane complexity. Needs to get more elegant and it will. With air comes great finesse and a brilliant, very integrated textured and all parts. Very fine stuff. Unreal density and structure here, anchored by world class finesse and length. — 5 months ago

Severn G

9.4

2005 | Champagne
(55% Chardonnay / 31% Pinot Noir / 14% Pinot Meunier)
Perseval-Farge; 197 Millésimes 1er Cru, Brut
(93-95; Drink 2025-35)

Disgorged February 2022; Lot 022022T18 — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.9

Oh. My. God. — 5 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: densely rich but elegant. Pleasant hint of oxidation

Palate: elegantly dense and rich. Delicious. — 10 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.9

The best white wine I have had this year. Meslier, Pinot Gris, Arbanne and Chardonnay. Stunning florals and a bit of Chenin DNA but way better than any Chenin. The nose is like Batard’s art school (RISDE?) cousin with a nose piercing and tons of tattoos. Just ridiculous. Fascinating and so complex but restrained and beautiful. Palate is magic. Huge acid, restrained richness, hint of oak, unreal finesse and just awesome concentration. Finish is minutes long. The perfection of the palate is just beyond anything. This rewired my brain. Absolutely perfect but only a 9.9 as age will rally this into the stratosphere. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

First time with this since June 2023. Super saline nose, green apple, almost like inner earth minerals from some long abandoned rock quarry. What a palate. Unreal mousse. Super toasty and yeasty and the caressing mousse is just brilliant. So juicy and unreal lime zest, flesh and meyer lemon and faint but ripe green apple. It’s so lush but also a mineral explosion. Unreal. What poise and texture. So sappy and complex. Unreal structure. Juicy and so clean but needs air and air it will get. Wow with air what cut and salinity. The minerality is nuts — 5 months ago

Roger Ray

9.3

60% Pinot Noir, 20% Meunier, 20% Chardonnay. A beautiful blend resulting in an amazing Champagne. — 8 months ago

Shay A

9.2

@Delectable Wine : This is the Emilien Allouchery La Scéne champagne. I didn’t see it in the database.

New producer I’ve started hearing about, and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to opening the BdN later.

80% fermentation in oak barrels, 20% in amphora. Disgorged May ‘23. 1 g/l dosage. 100% Chardonnay.

Bright, crisp and texturally really pretty. Classically grower champagne in style with the fruit center stage…borders on tropical (in a good way)…white peach, lemon zest, sea spray aromatics. IMO, a great example of where even 1gram dosage can help balance and lengthen out a champagne of this profile. Curious if the use of amphora adds to the mid-palate texture here? After an hour, little bit of sweet toast started to poke out, but it was second fiddle to the fruit. Balanced use of oak frames this well. Finish of chalk/limestone, sea salt, lemon confit, honeyed apple crisps. Worth seeking out. — 2 years ago