Grape - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Alcohol - 12%
Available from - Majestic
Price - £30
Appearance - clear; medium intensity; golden
Nose - Clean; medium intensity (maybe even a touch more); apple, lemon
Palate - Medium acid, medium alcohol, medium body, medium length; medium mousse; medium body. Lots of lemon, green fruit (apple), toasty-bready flavours from autolysis.
Quality - Good. Drink now.
Balance - 9 Length - 7 Intensity - 6 Complexity - 6
This is a really nice wine. I picked it up cheap (cheaper than shown above) as a bin-end but it is superior to some other NV Champagne that I have tried before. It is very citrus and appley as one might expect, with the flavours expected from bottle fermentation making it very tasty. I will post about autolysis separately.
Jojo said it made her think 'apple pie' - which is from the appley quality of the cooler climate Chardonnay, and the bready quality from the yeast.
It did not seem as acidic on the palate as I expected.
The 'balance' score, I assure you, was not contrived. I contemplated scoring it 'medium+' for length, but I am confident that 'medium' is right. Medium across the board on the palate makes it pretty balanced, but referring back to one of my early posts, balance isn't everything.
This is probably quite expensive at the full price for one bottle shown on Majestic's website, but I understand it is on fairly regular promotion. A pleasant and very drinkable bottle of wine.
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