An extremely “serious” – indeed even Krug or Bollinger-like Champagne, oak aged and with a good deal of older reserve wines.
Jancis Robinson especially loved this, saying:
Aged in oak barrels with three years on the lees and 8 g/l dosage.
Intense citrus with a salt-and-quinine crystalline bite to the fore, then a surprising softness on the mid palate, like white stone fruit. Lots of frothy mouth-filling bubbles – quite a textural contrast to the Brut Premier Cru. The minerality comes back on the finish to lengthen and refine.
And Suckling rates it Outstanding, too. As did Wine & Spirits, Decanter and the Wine Spectator.
At prices below their normal wholesale (and the best in the world by far), these big bottles are a real treat.
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