Wine Advocate: 100 Points
Revisited from the July 2019 disgorgement Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millésime was showing as brilliantly as ever. The wine seemed to shut down a little in early 2020 but it is already beginning to unwind and this was the most expressive bottle that I've drunk to date. Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit citrus oil pralines and freshly baked bread now complemented by hints of iodine clear honey and mirabelle plum it's full-bodied deep and layered with immense depth and concentration racy acids and elegantly muscular structuring dry extract. Long and penetrating as I've written before this wine is a monument to what Champagne's grower revolution has achieved over the last 30 or so years.
Vinous: 96 Points
"Just being released now, the 2008 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is quite possibly the most elegant, most refined Champagne I have ever tasted at Egly-Ouriet. Francis Egly captures the freshness and verve of 2008 as expressed in his vineyards in Ambonnay. That interplay yields a Champagne that is deep, resonant and pulsing with tremendous energy. The Pinot really comes through on a finish that just expands with superb resonance. In a word: brilliant! Disgorged: July, 2019." -- Antonio Galloni
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