This is fresh and welcoming but also immeasurably complex. It’s a wonderful bottle of sparkling wine. It’s savoury and citrussy, laced with yeast and blackcurrant bud notes, oystery through the finish and tapped with a briny dryness. It’s zippy in general but there’s a touch of satin to the texture too. It’s terrific.
96 points
The fruit is selected from the considered, complex plantings of chardonnay on the Bizot vineyard in Summertown, Piccadilly Valley. The wine spends eight months in
Full of tension and purity with lemon peel, oyster shell, nectarine and yellow apple, with plenty of depth underneath. The palate is mid-weighted and packed
Like it or not, many consumers will look at the price and tell themselves that this needs to be as good as a very fine