Joshua Fisher

9.6

Anybody name these fellows? — 5 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.3

Chosen for dinner by John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter in honor Open That Bottle Night. Very beautiful for about 10 minutes before it began to fade. Dipped whiling talking wine politics and feminism with Karen MacNeil the other fellows at The Professional Wine Writers Symposium. What an honor to get to share in this with peers! — 8 years ago

Ichiro Kawachi

9.6

A very fine gift from my Landmark postdoc fellows. Double matured - oak and sherry. Leather, antique wood, long vanilla finish. — 10 years ago

Stephan Reinhardt

Author The Finest WInes of Germany

9.7

Okay my dear fellows, this is just beautiful and--better than Champagne! Can't stop drinking it. An off-dry Mosel from the yet unsung Piesport Cru Falkenberg. This is a cool vineyard highly above Piesport where the vines grow in terraces on pure slate rocks and next to the forest. It's so vibrant, bright and delicate - as if it was joking with you. So far my discovery of the year. Love it. — 13 years ago

Gilles de Chambure

Master Sommelier & Educator

9.2

first planting in 2007 of zin in uruguay or south america? superb a womens wine making team owned by leslie fellows and her uncle from the usa fell in love with uruguay — 13 years ago

Stas Medvedev

9.7

🏅Rating 97+/100 (4,75⭐)

Clos du Mesnil is a 1.84-hectare vineyard in Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger surrounded by the walls. Its location and microclimate define a distinct terroir for Chardonnay which is renowned in Champagne as much as Montrachet in Burgundy.

This precious CdM'82 I shared with my champagne fellows on the eve of COVID-19 crisis. Memories that CdM definitely imprints in our minds and deep emotions which stay forever.

Perfectly aged multilayered wine with a complex tertiary bouquet to die for. Roasted nuts, honey, chalkiness and underlying pronounced acidity. So joyful!

Solo in Remi Krug terms, but the power of its voice equals to the orchestra. — 6 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.8

Where do I start with this wine? Perhaps what I didn't like about it. Palate seems unresolved as of now and it didn't deliver as much satisfaction as the nose, but that's just nitpicking. Also a touch too oxidative - hints of sherry notes. However, in a way, this adds complexity to what was already a rich, layered array of aromas. Tasting the Sapience, I think of a warm mille feuille, with baked apples and spices in one layer, salted caramel with nuts in another, chamomile cream with fresh mandarin pieces in the last. This had complexity of the highest order and probably the best champagne I've tasted this year.

Notes: Better to serve it in a bigger format glass. Like Bouchard and Selosse, bubbles dissipates quickly here. The ample use of oak and richness of the wine does make it somewhat table-like. Also, CJ noted that's this could have pulled off as a Selosse Millesime, which I have yet to taste. Mixed info about the wine so will list them all.

From FORCEBERRY on Cellartracker:
This is a brainchild of Benoît Marguet: the world's first "prestige cuvée" by Champagne small growers. Despite labeled under Marguet's name, this wine is not made with Marguet grapes; instead the grapes come from organic producer Georges Laval, who supplied Pienot Meunier (2/3 of the wine) and biodynamic producer David Léclapart, who supplied Chardonnay (1/3 of the wine), all grapes from minimum 1er Cru-level vineyards. The wine is vinified by Benoît Maguet and Hervé Jestin, a man best known as the cellar master of Duval-leroy. The wine is fermented and aged in old barriques for 6 months, after which the wine is bottled and left to age in Marguet's cellars for a minimum of 5 years. This wine is disgorged in September 2012 with a dosage of 3 g/l.

From Planetwine:
Sapience is a collaboration between Benoit Marguet, Benoit Lahaye, Vincent Laval, and David Leclapart. The concept is to craft a Champagne using extreme biodynamic methods. This rendition of Sapience comprises Chardonnay from David Leclapart, and Pinot Meunier from Vincent Laval. The next version will have Pinot Noir from Benoit Lahaye. The wine is made in the cellar of Benoit Marguet, who is one of the most passionate biodynamic winemakers we've encountered. The base wine spends two years aging in Bordeaux barrels before the second fermentation in bottle. More Chardy in blend.

From Pillariwine:

Benoit Marguet partnered with Herve Jestin to create this wine, the first ever certified organic prestige Champagne blended from across the region. They release the same wine with two different labels. One is Sapience/Marguet the other one is Champagne Jestin. Grapes are from the fellows of Hervé Jestin, Vincent Laval(Cumières, PN&PM, Biologic) and David Leclappart(Trépail, CH, Biodynamie). — 9 years ago

with Michelle

Ali Briggs

9.9

Alex brought to board fellows match, tasted spicy and sparkling, buy at Astor wines — 13 years ago

Judson Hoffman

10

In Maine with Beth aboard ketch Morning in Maine. — 7 years ago

Mike

10

Red blend 57% Syrah, 29% Merlot, and 14% Sangiovese. Bold and delicious — 9 years ago

James

8.9

Daddy wine... taste dry to my fellows; my kind of vino. Seems like aroma is oak + tobacco( or is that my stuffy nose?) 2014, $26 — 10 years ago

Joshua Fisher

8.9

In the old testament Moses sends two men forward to scout the promised land, they go and return carrying bunches of red grapes so large and god filled that they had to transport em hung unstemmed on a long pole carried on the shoulders of the two fellows. Proof they had been and seen the Promised Land ahead. If any grapes broke and that juice ran free down the pole and they, in their thirst, drank that broken juice, Chateau Unang was what it tasted like. — 11 years ago

Ann Sells

8.9

This great wine and a haunted old Odd Fellows orphanage and retirement home to boot. This winery was at a very unique location and the vineyard owner was really interesting to talk with. Apparently you can also find him and this place on a recent episode of Ghost Stories! — 13 years ago