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• 2023 Savart Champagne Premier Cru l'Ouverture Brut

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  5/9/2024 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 92 Points

  First off... this is a Rosé. A pale salmon Rosé, sure... but looking at it in the glass, it is a Rosé. It's very good, but if you let the juice sit on the skins this long... you are making a Rosé.
  
  Now that we've established what it is, yes, it is really good. It's not a really classic example of Champagne, but more of a delicious, pretty aggressively fruit forward, wine. Don't wait for autolytic notes or hints of age, this is all bright fresh fruit. All of the fruit notes you would write for a really made Rosé... it has 'em. This feels like a younger Ruppert-Leroy Papillion.
  
  Technically, this is very well made, with a fine mousse, balance within the style and overall, "I could drink this all day", deliciousness. With the intensity of fruit, I think this could age into something very interesting... with the chance that I might be wrong. Could be a 93, with a -1 for the, "are you serious", label.

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• 2021 Theo Minges Scheurebe QbA feinherb

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  5/1/2024 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 90 Points

  Just a fantastic delivery vehicle for an unapologetic tropical fruit profile. This packs all sorts of guava, mango, pineapple, etc., but it's built off of ripping acidity and well managed RS, so a flavor profile that could skew candied and cloying, just ends up being super refreshing and dangerously gulp-able. Mineral touches and acid induced saliva serve to further balance this out. An oddball wine that makes you wonder how this has ended up being an oddball. From a technical standpoint, this probably has all the elements to age, but I think young and vibrant is the version of this that I actually want. Summer of Scheurebe???

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• 2022 Sandlands Assyrtiko Lodi

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  4/2/2024 - Seafoam Manor wrote: 91 Points

  This isn't exactly what I would think of as a classic example of Assyrtiko, because it doesn't have the classic, Volcanic, Santorini notes... but this is really delicious. Very pale in the glass... like more clear than Chasselas and other Alpine wines. There's a slight mineral note to this, but it's a bold, fruit forward, wine... with a ton of restraint. Structurally, this is built on Med++ acidity and intensity of fruit. More on the citrus side, but there's a slight melon tone, with a light floral note, this does all the best things of, maybe, an Albariño... but a little better. Not something I would want to age, but I do want it with some raw fish, with the sun shining on me. The triumph and tragedy of this wine is that it's $22, but you can only get two bottles per vintage. In an alternate universe, I would grab two cases.

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