Jake Hajer

9.0

Licorice. — 3 months ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

Happy holidays. 🎅🧑‍🎄 ☃️ 🎄 🎁 ❄️

This is delicious. When it first hits your palate, it’s like hey, woah. It is super soft, micro-micro oxygenation. Delicate mousse, some maltiness, red apple cider reduction, pear, lemon meringue, lime pulp, grapefruit, orange peel, tropical melon, ripe pineapple, saline, sea fossils, chalky powder with an edge as it sets, white spice-ginger, white pepper, love the perfect limestone powder, brioche, baguette, some dough & light yeast, orange blossoms, white, spring flowers, racy, crisp acidity, excellent tension, structure, balance with beautiful long finish that lingers 90-120 seconds. Certainly one of the best and different champagne I’ve had in some time.

This cuvée is 100% Chardonnay and comes from the villages of Cramant, Chouilly, and Cuis.

Special Club Champagne must be produced with grapes from outstanding vintages harvested from the estates own vineyards. The cuvée must also be estate bottled and aged. It is the tête de cuvée(the most premier bottle of a grower’s estate) selection for the Champagne house.

There were 12 founding members, three of which currently remain: Pierre Gimonnet, Gaston Chiquet and Paul Bara. New members come and go every year. As of 2021, there are 28 members.

The process to become a Special Club is as follows. The wines must pass two rigorous stages of selection. Before that happens, members gather each February to taste each other’s still wines from the previous vintage. The members vote on whether to declare a vintage year, which would mean that the vintage was outstanding, and worthy enough of a vintage-dated Champagne. The vote must be unanimous. — a year ago

romo

9.3

Correct C-C with good restraint. — 3 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

2016 vintage. Solid representation. No particular essence with greater distinctiveness than any other. Good balance and value. — 2 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.0

Easy, quick and a good value — 4 years ago

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Pat Taylor

9.0

Top notch Ladoix. A few more years should take the heat off the finish. Otherwise, exceptional value. Loaded with fruit and flinty graphite. I’d really like to revisit this. — 6 years ago

Pooneet K

9.1

A notch better than I expected. The age has been good, as is some time with air in the glass. Pretty classic non-Chablis entry level white burg, in a nice way. Great acid core with good body and mouthfeel. — 8 months ago

Galaad

9.0

Un vin qui se boit sans soif, si doux si précis, ce léger côté iodé et ce bon fruit aérien — 3 years ago

Jason Li

9.1

Very perfume, more on the light and delicate side with aromas of Rose and cherries, getting sweet at the middle, medium to short finish. Good value and ready to drink. — 4 years ago

Gene Chow

9.0

Great burgundy for the price. Really improved with time. — 6 years ago