2016 Champagne Christophe Baron Champagne Les Alouettes Charly-sur-Marne
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The 2016 Champagne Les Alouettes offers a rich, beautifully textured style that has some obvious minerality as well as ripe orchard fruits, hazelnuts, and toasty nuances. It's medium-bodied on the palate and has notable richness, a bright, lively spine of acidity, and a great finish. It's going to benefit from another year or two of bottle age.
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The most reserved wine in the range is the 2016 Brut Nature Les Alouettes, from a southeast-facing site in Charly-sur-Marne. Unwinding in the glass with scents of citrus zest, apricot, orange oil and pear, framed by hints of wet stones and struck match, it's medium to full-bodied, tightly wound and chalky, with racy acids and an elegant pinpoint mousse. Interestingly, a magnum tasted in November 2020 was rather more open and expressive than this one, tasted in early 2021.
The 2016 Brut Nature Les Alouettes (Magnum) is ample and broad, with a real sense of volume that grows over time. Layered and beautifully resonant, the Alouttes is also the most sensual and immediate of these wines. Even with all of its intensity, the Alouttes is translucent and so expressive, even in the early going. Spice, dried pear, flowers and nutty accents linger. Disgorged: March, 2020.