An Aube tasting we’d organized last month was turning out to be a disaster. Seven of us gathered to explore the Champagne subregion in spectacular comprehensiveness but nothing was showing well. Three quarters through I’d settled on leaving without a single list addition.
Salime and Alain Cordeuil’s wines were the last tasted that afternoon. As a set they offered a summa of all desirable qualities possessed by their peers - peers unable to synthesize these desirables into wider successes. Textures were tight and linear though their wines dextrous and fluid. And at zero dosage across the range the sense of generosity, of open and easy expressivity made the group as fun to drink as rewarding to admire.
Just 10,000 bottles produced across all cuvées and so, at these prices, worth snagging what you can while you can.
Cheers,
Jason
