H. Billiot Fils, Millesime

코를 갖다 대면 시트러스 향이 적절하게 치고 올라오면서 달달한 과일 향이 어우러진다. 시간이 좀 지나면 부싯돌 냄새 같은 미네랄리티가 쓱 올라오는데 이게 꽤 재밌다. 막판에는 꿀 향기가 감도는데, 호불호 없이 누구나 좋아할 만한 향이다. 입에서는 반전 매력을 보여준다. 기분 좋은 탄산감이 팍 터지고, "좀 과한가?" 싶을 정도의 산도가 입안에 침을 싹 고이게 만든다. 코에서는 달달했지만 입에서는 오히려 바디감이 묵직하게 느껴진다. 피니시에는 짭짤한 미네랄리티가 남는데, 샴페인 좀 마셔본 사람라면 아주 좋아할 포인트다.

Bitter notes

Delicious. Toasty well balanced. Yum.

An estate we visited in 2013. This wine was disgorged in March 2024. 9g/l dosage. A blend of 25% Chardonnay and 75% Pinot Noir and 100% Grand Cru. The wine does not undergo Malolactic fermentation. Light yellow color. Creamy texture with a solid bead. Slightly sweet with peach and toast notes. 90 points.

Delicious and well rounded. Apple notes

Notes of red fruits like cherry, yellow apple, brioche, minerality and toastyness. All in all a quintessential Pinot dominant champagne

Nice to see this back in the market. The label is new but on the surface it appears the method is as it was. 09/06/23 disg. 75/25 Pinot/Chard. 8.5 g/L. That classic salmon washed gold is still the look. Over all the wine seems more reserved and lighter than I remember it being though. That could be a vintage thing. According to Skurnik the latest is 50/50 2021/blend of 19&20. Even with the lighter body the dosage doesn't stick out. …

Bookclub (Foretti's) : Blind: I thought this flight might all be the same producer. Correct. Guessed Courtin. Wrong This is a great bottle. Very complex and entertaining. It looks like there's a very faint pink hue. Soft inviting nose. Palate, oh, tangy, that's fun. Citrus, apple and pear. Cinnamon slice at the finish. Great stuff and under $50 No brainer. It's supposedly 8.5 g/l. Okay... Does not show it.

Bookclub (served blind)--Sean : Of the three Billiot that Sean curated for this blind flight, the table was pretty much in agreement that this was the most interesting, making for a 'stop and think'. 8.5 grams of dosage, March 2023 disgorgement. Mostly Pinot with some Chard, according to the Billiot website. I got lots of stone fruit in the wine, kinda like a stone fruit pie filling--mainly peach and nectarine. Plus, some cinnamon, and again some pie crust. The nuances …

Consistent with previous bottle. Really delicious and well balanced champagne.

Sep 2019 Disgorgement, a fine bottle which is at a good place for current consumption. The style of the wines from this house has gotten more precise over the years which is also reflected in this base NV. More cut and structure and a little dryer and while this bottle had the advantage of a few extra years of cellar time I would recommend that this is one to drink before it gets too advanced. That said there is no …

Inga noter. Men den påtagliga brödigheten har definitivt slipats av. I bra balans. Mycket bra.

No formal notes taken but it was quite enjoyable and fresh and the bottle disappeared quickly.

Tart, orchard fruits, lush mouthfeel.

*** Gorgeous! What a pleasant and interesting Champagne. Lovely mousse, long, delicate but strong palate. At once open but focussed Big hit! Disgorgement 4/19/22.

Christmas eve bottle. Very good with the cold starters tonight. Apples, orchard fruit, lemons, still quite autolytic. Good acidity and lift.

This is the latest version of this wine. There is no degorgement information. Clear medium light yellow with huge mousse. Very approachable nose, green apple, lemon, yeast and pastry. Delicious and dry flavours and finish.

My last bottle of the June 2011 disgorgement. It was "misplaced" for a bit, so that I thought it was gone. Glad it was still there! It's certainly mature, and for some no doubt overly mature, but I love the nutty caramelly character, and it's still vibrant. Salty finish, and lingering nut/apple skin notes. Delicious.

P&P Still young and has more to reveal. Apples and bread, yeast, lemons, quite autolytic, some almonds and lemons on the finish.

Pear, not too dry.

Nose with bread and bakers yeast and lots of apples. Palate very much follows the nose. Freshly baked bread, yeasty with yellow mashed apples, citrus, creamy with quite high acidity.

Apples, pears, toast

Samma noter som senast avseende brödigheten i denna cuvée. Men, den här gången i pairing med kycklinglevermousse, fuet och Delice de Bourgogne och då plötsligt flyger det på ett annat sätt. Även nästa flaska kommer jag att inta med feta och proteinrika snacks. Mycket bra i sammanhanget.

white gold, in color. active bubble stream. apple, tangerine, lime, lemon, pear, bread dough, pastry, yeasty, cream, saline, sea shells, mineral. fine mousse, red apple, rich pastry cream, on the finish.

Väldigt ljust gul. Medelhög syra. Tydligaste aromerna är äpple, kanske åt det övermogna/oxiderade hållet. Men allra mest påtagligt är det autolytiska inslaget - det är mycket bröd/brioche/jäst. Gissar att det kan vara en del av bäbishullet och lugnar sig över tid. En bra odlarchampagne på det hela taget.

Off bottle ? Seemed OTH.

1999 vintage

Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline (Alex's office, near Old Street tube) : Mature, medicinal, toffee-apple sweetness on the palate, a bit edgy - not convincing

1998 vintage

Russell's Pebbles Fizz Offline (Alex's DML Office) : Some spice on the nose, quite rich and oxidative. A bit clipped on the mid-palate but round, quite rich and decent length. A good food wine. ***

1998 vintage

Profumo di biscotti speziati al miele, naso molto ricco ma piacevole, bocca piena e con buona dolcezza di frutto

1998 vintage

Bevuto con un fritto misto, andato decisamente meglio dell'altra volto. Certo molto ricco e con grande struittura in bocca, ma assolutamente bevibile

1999 vintage

Interessante ma quasi imbevibile per la pesantezza del dosaggio

1999 vintage

Very crisp and fresh. Good fruit but well balanced.

1999 vintage

refined and elegant nose of joyous dark fruit, toasty, a hint of earth. very fine on the palate with a great balance of fruit and acidity and a fragrant chalky finish. fresh and clean with a great inner core of energy, this wine showed just fantastically well.

1999 vintage

Champagne/Bubbly offline (Galen's House -- Westchester, CA) : Disgorged 5/12/2007. A rich Champagne with notes of caramel, mixed nuts, lemon cream, and cranberries. Slightly sweet on the finish, but a delicious wine with a long life ahead of it. My WOTN. 91-92 points.

1999 vintage

Good concentration of young fruit showing the appley characteristics across the fruit along with some softer pear qualities. Could have used more length. Terrific for the vintage and the price. Many years to go before it will be at it's best.

1999 vintage

Very deep gold in color, lively mousse. Full bodied and smooth; delicious taste of red apples (not green apples!) and some toast. We enjoyed this *very* much!

1998 vintage

Off bottle that appeared to have oxidized due to its dark gold color. Raisiny flavors and nose. Not pleasant.

1998 vintage

Medium golden with semi-fine bubbles. Very interesting nose of fresh baked onion loaf and green apples. Comes off yeasty, but not the multigrain bread style of Bollinger. Great mouthfeel, with bread, apples and a very long finish. Good quality vintage Champagne for a reasnoable price.

1999 vintage

Holy crikey, this has some crazy honeycomb aromas and flavors that are matched by lovely minerality. The toasy creme brulée flavors are almost too much but really, I could keep drinking this.

1998 vintage

Surprisingly dark color. Somewhat Krug-like oxidative notes of rich bread and apple. Nicely balanced with ample mousse and acidity. Very nice for the price.

1998 vintage

Frazier's with some other wines, principally with squash soup. Too dark to discern color. Somewhat sweet fruit on the nose. Lively mousse. Pleasant fruit oriented mouthfeel with marzipan, slight toastiness and some biscuity flavors. More fruit than acid. Feels a little slick. Flavors came off a tad one dimensional and had a sweet finish even though I understand this is low dosage? Probably drunk too soon.

1998 vintage

Nice brioche and green apple flavors in a creamy style (agree with R. Faulkner on this). Drinking very well now but could probably short-term age. If I owned these the odds of them aging would be slim because they wouldn't last long.

1998 vintage

Quite big. Smooth. No great complexity but emminently drinkable. Aperitif at Single avrietals Offline, RJs London.

1998 vintage

With fresh dungeness; very nice.

1998 vintage

Tasted 2005-11-18 (AIS) in a flight of 7 Champagnes Golden yellow (I feared oxidation). On nose, no oxidative notes, a light touch of sweet oak, a little coconut, yeast autolysis, orange marmalade; intense and persistent on nose and palate. Nice structure, rich mouth feel. Fully mature and is unlikely to improve with age. Fermented in oak, 2/3 Pinot Noir, 1/3 Chardonnay. Very nice wine, my second favourite in the flight.

1999 vintage

Champagne Offline - Revenge of the Fizz (Snows - London) : Very strong mousse, explodes softly on the tongue. Full creamy style, so smooth. Bright red fruit, superb balance, a nice chalky backdrop. Very forward, this was ready to go. Great value. Not sure about this for long term prospects but the next 2-3 years will be great (if we have any left by then)

1998 vintage

Thiese Champagne Dinner (Alana's) : Slightly off - maybe corked? Awkward. Full-bodied, slight sherry notes. Good underlying material, saline notes and apple-y fruits. Paired worked OK - Fresh Ohio Pheasant On Hand-Rolled Pappardelle with an Exemplary Reduection Graced with Blueberry.

1998 vintage

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