2016 Larmandier-Bernier Champagne Premier Cru Terre de Vertus

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  5/8/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Yum - real grip and bite. Very fresh, without becoming overly citric: just great balance, with cream, golden apple, quinine and toast all evident in harmony and then a crisp, gingery, bubbly finish. It's a delicious and exciting Champagne.

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  4/20/2024 - Somm David T Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nice soft mousse body, yellow peach, tropical melons, pineapple, some lemon meringue, lime zest, slightly bitter apple cider, whipped cream, hard chalkiness, alluvial limestone, saline, sea fossils, bread crust, yeastiness, yellow florals, racey acidity, nicely balanced & structured with a finish that lasts 90 seconds.
  
  Needs a few more years in bottle.

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  4/18/2024 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Blind Champagne Tasting (Basanti in San Juan Capistrano, CA (South OC)): First crack with this vintage. September 2022 disgorgement so a good solid 5 years on the lees. 100% Chard, farmed bio-d, no dose which is the way for this cuvee. I didn't start drinking this wine until the 2012 vintage, and I have liked them all, aside from the 2015 which is pretty lean. This bottle pours with a brassy color. Real good fruit presence and texture in this vintage. It reminds me of an orange marmalade with a generous yellow apple, shaded by a gingery spice that energizes the wine from palate through the finish. Then, when I had let the wine get pretty close to room temp 70f, a thought shot through my senses....hey, this is like a slice of apple pie. The apple, some cinnamon spice and a bit of pastry. Pretty cool moment. Yep, some saline here too, to be expected given the style and soil but it's more present when the wine is cooler, replaced by more of the fruit when the wine is allowed to stretch out and shed its colder jacket. And plenty of citrus in the finish, even some anise and toast (likely from the wood). Really good iteration of Terre de Vertus--good stuffing, definition and balance....on the second day this added much more citrus and some structure too within the wine.

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  4/17/2024 - IrisTable wrote:

  April Basanti (blind): Blind. Clean and refreshing. Lime/lemon zest, a bit of stem on the finish. On revisit, as it got warmer, I got something like orange curd. Really well done for 0 dosage BdB.

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  4/17/2024 - mattyboy_ Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Utterly delicious. Plenty of tension with richness - toast, brioche, hazelnuts, lemon confit. Fun to drink now.

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