Gonet-Medeville - Champ d'Alouette 2008 (750ml)

96 Points From Antonio Galloni, Vinous
"The 2008 Extra Brut Champ d'Alouette Grand Cru is a pure Chardonnay from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger that spent 14 years on lees. The nose is savory with both fresh sour cream and melted butter. Evolution is evident in a touch of fresh white field mushroom and salty white miso creaminess. The palate is a marvel. There is not a wrinkle, just youthful brightness that expands palate and mind by virtue of its super-fine, creamy mousse. What must have been austere depth has metamorphosed into a picture of salty, luminous elegance. This is not about fruit, although lemon figures in that freshness, this is about profound chalk and its salty, primal pull. Exquisite, long, memorable."
Jancis Robinson  18/20 - Tamlyn Currin
"Richer, very different from and much more seductive than the high-wired 2007. Note of caramel, morels, butter and buttered hazelnuts, but under that richness and in the cool, shadowy edges, moss and stones and herbs. And so much orange! Bitter orange, sweet orange, blood orange. Mouth-watering and just pulsing with energy and full of emotion: Barber's adagio for strings, liquid. After a long tasting of nearly 80 wines, this was the wine that made me feel alive again. It was like a shot in the arm, voltage to the soul."
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