Tasting Notes
JancisRobinson.com 18.5
Magnum. Ingredients from top grands crus including Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger. Warm summer and a harvest that began on 7 September in mild, damp conditions.Drinking beautifully now from a handsome magnum. The nose has the richness of maturity and notes of lemon but the palate is still hugely refreshing and admirably tense.
Anticipated maturity: 2016-2034
Vinous 98
The 2006 Comtes de Champagne is in a great spot. Baked apple tart, spice, chamomile, marzipan, slate and chalk confer tremendous vibrancy and power throughout. Bright saline notes play off the natural exuberance of the year. The 2006 was spectacular on release. It is all that today, too.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2046
Robert Parker 96
"Tasted almost two years after disgorgement, the 2006 Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs shows a beautiful golden-citrus color and opens with a fascinating intense, floral, slightly reductive nose that develops enormously in the glass, offering lemon and lemon confit aromas along with flinty notes of crushed chalk and the iodine flavors of the Atlantic Ocean. This is an utterly complex and promising bouquet! The palate is terribly fresh but also rich, lush and intense, with the purity of the finest wines of the Cote de Blancs, the concentration of perfectly ripe Chardonnay and the suppleness of 2006. This has impeccable balance paired with high tension. The wine is very tight and still seems to be on its way right now. Although there is a first hint of aromatic ripeness, this should be a great Comtes de Champagne in a couple of years. The finish is tensioned, concentrated and mineral but keeps its talents in an almost bursting bubble. Disgorged September 2016; tasted May 2018 (lot L6316UM13600)."
Anticipated maturity: 2020-2034
