Essi Avellan: Baked-apple and yellow-fruit nose with little evolution. Soft, mouth-filling palate, nicely integrated. Compact and in tune from the beginning to the end. Quite sweet, though. 87

Anthony Rose: Pale lemon, restrained hedgerow fruit and floral notes on the nose; nicely balanced mousse of persistent bubbles, with refreshing acidity balancing out pleasingly textured mousse, nicely contained without ever hitting the high notes. 87

Tom Stevenson: Lovely wine in terms of structure, texture, and mousse, but a tad sweet and too youthful in an amylic sort of way. Hard to know how to judge this since it is just three steps away from being a great English NV; just needs older reserves, more time on yeast, and more post-disgorgement aging. 88