Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92 points

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    12/25/2016 - wrote: 91 Points

    Mid straw colour. Gentle bubblestream with very fine bubbles.
    Rich, full nose. Toasted brioche and lots of pear fruit - fresh pears, caramelised pears and almost rotting pears. Plus raspberries: bright, fresh raspberries.
    Good full palate. Clearly nicely mature with a gentle mousse. Feeling quite extracted and evolved. Toasted brioche flavours, and the pear fruit is back in spades. There's a somewhat beery, or maybe perry-like note in the middle giving a not unpleasant sourness, turning the brioche flavours more sourdough-like. Good, more normal-for-champagne black fruit flavours on the finish. Very good length. But overall I think this needs drinking up if you have any left and aren't experimenting with ageing it further.

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    12/25/2009 - wrote: 93 Points

    Very fine and persistent bead. Lovely evolved nose with pears and baked apples. Gosh, this is really very drinkable indeed. Nicely mature, but retaining a refreshing freshness. Nice bready, almost wheaty flavours. Lacks a bit of depth, I suppose, and length. But it feels very noble.

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    9/7/2008 - wrote: 89 Points

    Very lively on opening: despite very careful handling and opening, a good third of the bottle gushed uncontrollably out.
    Quite a deep straw colour. Fairly rich nose: there are some black fruit, plenty of candied pear and a touch of sherbert. Possibly the merest hint of menthol too? At least that's a smell coming from the carpet where so much of it ended up. The palate is rich and full with ripe to over-ripe pear flavours particularly noticeable, alongside a fruit-sourness that is out of proportion to the apparent acidity. Feeling quite evolved and maybe getting a bit too old - it does need drinking up, I think, which confirms the impression of Friday's bottle. Maybe it will continue to evolve and emerge from this slightly rustic stage? Don't know. It's a bit better a bottle than Friday night's ... but I suppose that might just be because tonight's bottle isn't being overshadowed and outclassed by a well nigh perfect Nyetimber. 88-89/100

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    9/5/2008 - wrote: 85 Points

    Wine-Pages Nottingham Offline (Pretty Orchid Restaurant, Nottingham): A very elegant nose initially, but it degenerates slightly into bready, yeasty, alcoholic blackberry fuit aromas.
    Open palate, with the same blackberry, sour cherry, overripe fruit. There was almost a hint of rotting pears, which knocked the pleasure off drinking it. Probably getting a bit too old, and I'll be drinking up my few bottles soonish. If I remember.

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    12/25/2004 - wrote: 95 Points

    Very much on form and punching well above its weight. Very attractive nose - blackberries and blackberry leaf with toast. Crisp and very clean on the palate, with good fruit, and good complexity especially towards the finish. Hugely attractive. Excellent.

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