93100 Punkte Robert Parker August 31, 2018

From chalk and silex soils, the golden-yellow colored 2006 Le Mont Aimé Premier Cru Coeur de Terroir has a very particular bouquet for the Côtedes Blancs and needs a while to get rid of its rather reductive style(36% was fermented in small oak barrels). Concentrated citrus flavorsevolve after a while in the glass. This could also be a ripe and flintyChablis with bubbles. On the palate, this is a beautifully elegant,refined and rather crystalline Champagne, and its linear elegance ispretty unique. The finish is pure, salty and rather piquant but ripe.This is a fascinating wine that I perhaps slightly underrated in myreview from two years ago (in Issue #225). This sample was disgorged inJuly 2017, about 2.5 years after the one I tasted in early 2016 for myprevious review. The dosage is 3.5 grams per liter. The wine was bottledin April 2007, but the long lees aging adds a lot of elegance, finesseand charm. The finish is incredibly salty and refined yet also complexand persistently structured. Tasted April 2018.