Egly-Ouriet Millésime Grand Cru Brut Champagne Blend 2008

...the wine surpassed even my high expectations. Wafting from the glass with scents of crisp orchard fruit, Meyer lemon, praline, warm bread and walnuts, it's full-bodied, deep and multi-dimensional, with an immensely layered, concentrated core that cloaks its racy but ripe spine of acidity, abundant but refined structuring dry extract and an incredibly long, precise and sapid finish. It represents the confluence of a great vigneron at the peak of his powers with a historic vintage, and it's unquestionably the finest 2008 Champagne that I've tasted to date... the 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millésime will be worth any and every effort to seek out once it arrives on the market. Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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