Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose: brioche.

Palate: lovely richness. Mineral. — 2 days ago

TwiLea Fletcher

9.1

05.09.25
Thank you, Barry — 10 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is a bit more broad and less focused, smokey and brioche and yeast and bread, so fine and very dry and mineral, also the earthiest one. So pure and so sappy. Clean and fresh. Not too complex but so well made and fine mousse, juicy and invigorating and sapid and lots of fruit skins. Classic and champagne for parties. — 2 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.4

Every good home should have a few…

…yeasty buttered popcorn nose, lovely fragrance, more buttery richness on the palate tempered by acid & minerality. Lovely. — 3 years ago

with Alsu

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. — 2 days ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

Delicious. A medium bodied, lifted Syrah. Very nice acids buoying the bloody, minerally flavors along. Tannins largely resolved. — 9 months ago

with Dan and Angelo

Helene K

10

Dyp, lilla farge. Merket plutselig at det er lenge siden jeg har drukket en ordentlig dyp og fyldig vin. Flashbacks til Prime Steak House-tider. Frisk, fyldig, ingen bitter ettersmak. — 2 years ago

Jay Kline

9.5

Popped and poured; enjoyed over two days. Maybe slightly better on Day 2 under a muzzle. The “Le Pucelles” pours a straw color with a persistent mousse. On the nose, the wine is developing with powerful notes of ripe and tart fruit: green apple, wild strawberry, raspberry, Meyer lemon, and minerals. On the palate, the wine is dry and the acid is high. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long. Looking back at my previous notes for this wine from the same disgorgement, the fruit set has shifted a little but I’m no less impressed. The quality of the fruit is tremendous and the minerals dazzle. A dense Champagne and yet it never feels heavy. The cut and precision is undeniable. Drink now through 2036. Disgorged in October of 2022. Thank you @Lyle Fass for the assist! — 2 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: densely rich but elegant. Pleasant hint of oxidation

Palate: elegantly dense and rich. Delicious. — 5 months ago

Helene K

10

Så god vin til en så rimelig penge. Fin farge, rund, frisk, lett og god ettersmak. — 2 years ago