PIERRE GIMONNET & FILS - Special Club Brut 'Grand Terroirs de Chardonnay' - 2012

PIERRE GIMONNET & FILS

Special Club Brut 'Grand Terroirs de Chardonnay' 2012

- 93 points -

Interestingly, the 2012 Special Club is quite a bit riper and bigger than any of the three single-village Special Clubs. Light tropical overtones meld into a core of candied orange peel, apricot, chamomile and wild flowers. In this tasting, the 2012 comes across as adolescent and not fully put together. Hopefully that will come in time.

November 2018


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