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Decanter How Champagne 2020 wines are shaping up
Champagne s 2020 vintage has been tipped as the third instalment in a trilogy of quality years, says Giles Fallowfield, who reports on a tasting of vins clairs from top growers.
Champagne 2020 vintage is the third high quality and very warm harvest in a row;
a trilogy of vintages that resembles 1988, ’89 and 90, in terms of quality, but picked much earlier.
Gloriously ripe but balanced and practically disease free, 2020’s potential was recognised at the time of the harvest.
But eight months on, a Zoom tasting of the
vins clairs (still base wines) from the 15 top growers in the