Er meget enig med Eric Asimov:
"I applaud the general movement to lower dosages in Champagne, but our tasting demonstrated not only the beauty that can be accomplished working in this style, but also the dangers of plunging headlong into fashion. Our top 10 included quite a few gorgeous wines. But many that didn’t make the cut were punishingly austere, offering little charm and even less pleasure. In some ways, they reminded me of the dry German rieslings of 20 years ago, which so often were shrill and mouth-puckering.
The key, of course, is balance. Champagnes like our favorites — the tangy, taut Bérèche & Fils Extra Brut Réserve; the lively, pure Georges Laval Brut Nature; and the rich, energetic Benoît Lahaye Brut Nature — were impeccably balanced, detailed and delineated. Bone dry? Yes, but pleasingly so.
All of the wines in our top 10 were made by superb grower-producers who are largely able to control every element in the vineyard and cellar. The larger producers in our tasting — who are generally buying grapes and, in some cases, finished wines — did not fare as well.
Tasting through the 20 bottles, it became clear that these are naked wines that will show every flaw. The growers must ripen the grapes perfectly because overly tart, underripe wines cannot be corrected by a high dosage. This is the great attraction of the style.
Yet, at the same time, is anything so wrong with a winemaker employing the technique of dosage to round off hard, pointy edges? Not at all. I came away from this tasting with both a greater appreciation for the skill required to work in this style, and for the proper use of dosages in most good Champagnes.
If you are going to make a wine like this, you cannot simply withhold that final step of adding a dosage. The preparation must begin in the vineyard, and making a low- or no-dosage Champagne probably requires years of subtle alterations in technique to achieve the goal.
With clothing, if a man wants that casual, untucked look, he can’t just pull his business shirt out of his pants to look fashionable. He’ll look baggy and odd. He must put on a shirt rigorously tailored to appear unkempt. Just so with wine. It takes a lot of careful work to follow fashion without falling flat."
http://www.nytimes.com/2…nted=2&_r=0PS - Mumm Cordon Rouge har moderat dosage på 8g/L (under middel for store huses standard-NV), mens eksempelvis Roederer med Brut Premier kører lige til Brut-grænsen med 11-12g/L.