2008 Piper-Heidsieck Brut Millésimé Rare
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A restrained Champagne that displays the producer’s style quite clearly. On the nose it shows coconut, white chocolate, chalk, lemon zest, green apples and iodine. Amazing white chocolate flavors on the palate. It’s full-bodied and zesty with tingling bubbles and a silky texture in the finish. Great tension and complexity, with a lemony finish. Disgorged in 2023. Drink or hold.
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Jancis Robinson MW
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The newly released 2008 Brut Cuvée Rare is very promising, unwinding in the glass with a youthfully reserved nose of citrus oil, crisp green apple, freshly baked bread, iodine and oyster shell, as well as some rather herbaceous characteristics that depress my score a little, even if I suspect that they will resolve with a bit more bottle age. Medium to full-bodied, incisive and tightly wound, if the 2006 vintage was gourmand and demonstrative, the 2008 is slower to show all its cards. Built around racy acids and complemented by a pillowy mousse, this rendition of Cuvée Rare will reward a few years more on cork.- WK