This is glorious Champagne by any standards: a coeur de cuvee from old vines. That indicates free-run juice, from which the first and last few hundred liters are removed. 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir. Wonderful flower and vanilla-pudding aromas; this is iridescently alive and almost brashly vital, a super-reality of flavor, crackling and mineral and snappy, coiled and starched-for now. Disgorged 2/08 and certainly not showing all its cards. - Chartogne-taillet Champagne Cuvee Fiacre 2002 750ml -