Essi Avellan: Deep golden. Full-on, deep, soft nose. Ripe, sweet, tropical fruit, lovely pastry complexity, opulent toast, and delicious vanilla. Promising. Full-bodied, velvet-textured, sweet palate, full of gorgeous fruit. Creamy mousse and seamless length. A suitably opulent dosage that is marrying well. Super freshness. Decadent. Majestic today, but it seems still to be slowly evolving and perfectly harmonious, with its best years still ahead of it. 19.5

Simon Field: Bubbles are prevalent if a little dispersed; the nose is equally difficult to decipher and the palate has similar heterogeneous qualities; so, not without merit, but hard to value as an ensemble. 16

Tom Stevenson: Old-gold color, lovely, classy, yeastcomplexed aromas dominating the nose, with nothing toasty yet, though the toastiness will eventually show through (and the tardiness of this effect only increases the score). Impressively youthful and fruit-driven. 19 (29 months post disgorgement, tasted 2014; 12%; 5.5g/l dosage; 40mg/l total SO2)