Essi Avellan: Medium-deep peach-hued color. Forward nose, with simple red-fruit notes, with patisserie, apple cider, and honey. Not much depth or finesse. Coarse mousse on the mid-weight palate, which lacks spine and refinement. 13.5

Michael Edwards: Mid-yellow and a regular cordon of bubbles; a quiet nose of yellow fruits and light spices; still fresh impact of mousse on the tongue; light-framed, with a pleasing tension, purity, and raciness, though fairly straightforward. 15.5

Tom Stevenson: Excellent, very high acids, with a true brut dryness that works, and a certain chewiness to the fruit (stone fruit, apricot, plums), with the perception, if not the actuality, of tannin on the finish. 17.5