Dosnon & Lepage, Ephemere Pinot Meunier

Decent champagne for price point. Nice fruit and mouse. A bit too sweet for my taste.

Delicious but has some funk, for those who do not like funk be careful.

All Pinot Noir. Medium plus nose shows funk, light red fruits, truffle, light citrus. Palate very showy, toast, brioche, raspberry, then quite dry with phenolics. Nice complexity, would like to see it with a few years of age.

100% pinot meunier from the Cote des Bar d/g 06/20 Apple chutney and rising bread dough on the nose. Rich butter apple pastry on the palate with caramelized red cherry tart mixed in. A touch of candied fruit wrapped in carmelized richness. This is the quintessential rich and hedonistic style of champagne. Perfect for someone getting into champagne and looking for the "it" factor.

Creamy and fresh. Strawberry shortcake, a squeeze of lemon, with pastry notes coming forward on the finish. Balanced sweetness and acidity. Excellent.

Frisk, god til mat, ble etterhvert noe ham.

Disgorged 9/16 Not much to add from my previous tasting note from same lot opened more than one year ago. Very well structured Champagne - as others have said, slightly fruit driven but at the same time masculine in its structure I find this to be a great example of a NV Champagne

Started out nicely rounded and somewhat delicate with acid buoying the round pink fruit, delightful as it was this picked up serious weight as the wine saw more air gaining in texture, nuance and power, the oak comes on later so decide before opening whether you want Jekyll or Hyde- both are really delicious.

Dusty red fruit with good mouthfeel and a nice, tight finish. Really nicely balanced, graceful all the way through.

Disgorgement 9/1/16. Light rose/copper color with green tint. Medium aromas of faint red fruit with floral/earth undertones and faint biscuit. Medium(+) palate of red fruit with tight mousse. Medium(+) acidity and quite dry. Nice finish. Only moderately complex but very elegant and well integrated.

Very dry sparkling rose with peach and a touch of nut shell. Warming up, some pomelo on the finish.

Pretty color, nice bubbles. Solid. Moderate complexity.

Solid rose, nice light toast. Not too heavy.

I had forgotten I had this a year ago. I didn't give it a great review then (8/13) and it hasn't improved. Actually this last bottle was flat, literally. No "pop" when opened. I bought two, not sure why, so I'll be sure to open this when my in-laws are over for noche buena.

Consistent with previous.

Began the evening with a magnum in celebration of birthdays with friends.

This bottle is remarkably lighter than the last bottle I had. I checked it for a disgorgment date and there is none. It's just as good as the last bottle I had - but I did purchase this separately from the last bottle I had so it could be a different lot? Much more youthful and just as delicious. Bright with a creamy and vibrant mousse. Citrus with a depth and texture not noticed before. If you like the Krug …

Creamy, chalky, good acids, nice yellow and apple fruits. IMHO, I think it would benefit from more aging and still some unsettled tartness and edgy that would better appeal as it softens.

Copper colored. Racy raspberry and strong acidity, stone. I liked it a lot - very aggressive champagne, not feminine at all. Like a race car - unusual for what I've had previous. I must try it again.

This rose doesn't do it for me - it's all elegance but short on character. The colour is a pale rose, and aromas are typical wild strawberry, with some autolytic biscuity notes. The taste is clean and dry, but rather linear and unexciting. Decent finish.

Awesome Dinner with Friends (Erasmus, SQN, Saxum, Pride, Dehlinger++) (Out and about) : Pale rose/copper colored in the glass. Thick mousse with small bubbles. Lots of strawberries on the nose. Slight lemon note. Slightly sweet on the attack. Finish is abrupt. This is very nice. Worked better once we had some food.

I think this is a little overpriced at $50. Light salmon color, faint notes of red berry, broken stone, hay and chalk. Nice, clean effervesence. Slate midpallet and very precise. No yeast to speak of. Very clean and simple. It has no... siloutte. If this were a regular brut it would be around $30ish. I expect a little more from grower champagne.

Crisp, clean and fresh. This was our first "grower" champagne and it was very lively and packed a punch. Obviously as a rose it was a bit more fruity, but still very crisp and refreshing. More than one person remarked that they "don't like champagne" but really liked this offering.

Clear champagne with a hint of fruit on the nose and green apple on the tongue. Real Champagne pedigree (meaning no heavy sweetness on the front of the upper palette). Excellent value.

cherry, raspberry, red currant but more sirup then fresh on the palate quite alcohol, artificial red berry flavors. a bit flabby and short. seems like the base vintage from my bottle is 2009 as it very ripe and unbalanced. a bit disappointed after hearing good things about this producer

A rose champagne. Consistent notes with subtle nose of lightest red berry. Not yeasty. Red fruit, light on the palate, and nicely complementing a Mediterranean-based summer meal.

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