NV Charles Dufour Champagne Bulles de Comptoir #10 Tchin-Tchin

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  3/23/2024 - grapenomad wrote: 90 Points

  Moderate lemon in the glass. Nose is oxidative - notes of roasted nuts, peach cobbler, jasmine, overripe pear. Palate is on the richer, rounder side, but has a really nice acidity to bring everything up a notch. Bubbles are soft. Finish is moderate. Good if you like richer, sweeter styles of Champagne.

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  12/30/2023 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 92 Points

  Late night at Maison Dakota. Tasted blind. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is slight cloudy, medium intensity, copper gold colour. Lots of persistent bubbly froth. Thin legs.
  Nose took a while to get going, medium intensity, with aromas of oxidative bruised apples, light strawberry, brioche bread. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium body. Medium flavour intensity, with flavours of oxidative bruised red apples, golden yellow apples and pears, light strawberry, thin chalky limestone minerality. Vinous red apple in background. Long gentle finish.
  Very good quality. Oxidative style. Good drinking already. A slightly different experience from the last bottle of this I tried. Might be slight bottle shock as this bottle travelled back from Japan very recently.
  60% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Blanc. 80% 2019 vintage with 20% reserve perpetual.

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  12/29/2023 - Bathtub58 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Surprised by all the lower scores. 3rd time I've had this in 12 months, both in Europe and the U.S. Consistent performance. This time consumed over two hours. Initially, aromas of oyster shell that evolved into light-moderate aromas of lemon and orange oil. After two hours this added quite a bit of depth with moderate+ flavors of lemon, mandarin, and marzipan; flavors of wheat toast faded into the background with time. Lots of energy. Medium body. Moderate+ complexity/finish. Definitely some upside, but quite enjoyable now with a couple hours of air.

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  11/18/2023 - slanum wrote:

  Spicy ginger and juicy, white-fleshed stone fruit. Racy, too. Grand vin? No, slapped up on the "comptoir" is about right given its ebullience and very tasty straightforwardness.

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  10/30/2023 - Nojomoschwa Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very delicious for the price (under $50) and I also happen to love the whimsical label. Kill me :)

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