""1995 is also a great vintage in its own right but it has always been a bit in the shadow of '96," says Fisher. "But then we found ourselves having a few conversations with private clients and tasted the odd thing here and there that suggested the 1995s were tasting surprisingly good. So we thought it would be interesting to re-visit the two.""
""It's a derby of two beautiful vintages," he said. "Both were sunny and ripe. The biggest difference was '95 was an extremely small harvest - so you get this concentration, but balanced with this bright acidity that has helped it resist the passing of time. The 1996s were even more acid, but the fruit in them was more fragile, so so""
""It's a legendary year in champagne - the first vintage consumers really got behind and started collecting,' says Katherine Fisher, champagne buyer for Bordeaux Index. 'It's often talked about in the same breath as '02, '08, 2012.'""
Bordeaux Index staged a comparative tasting of top prestige cuvées from 1995 and 1996 to assess their development thirty years on. 1996 is widely regarded as a legendary, highly collectible vintage with notable acidity. 1995 has been relatively overshadowed but displays remarkable concentration due to an extremely small harvest and sustained bright acidity. Tasting formats that revisit vintages decades later reveal unexpected strengths and weaknesses across bottles. Observers noted that 1996 exhibits higher acidity while some of its fruit proved more fragile, whereas 1995’s balance and concentration have helped it resist the passage of time.
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