Light-mid straw-yellow; reductive bouquet showing malt, straw and lemon characters, the palate rich and generously flavoured, with a clean dry balance and long aftertaste. Plenty of toasty/bready tirage-aged complexities here, the palate piercingly intense and focused, with lively acidity which is well-balanced and cleansing. Superb aged sparkling wine. (Disgorged June 2026)
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