Essi Avellan: Bright, deep lemon color. Beautifully toasty and sweetly fruity nose: singing. Coffee, gunpowder, tropical fruit, vanilla. Superbly in line with the delicious nose is the crisp, vivacious, fruit-forward palate. Zesty acidity, bright fruit, energetic mousse. A magnum full of life and pleasure. Plentiful in every sense. 18.5

Simon Field: Fine mousse and a vigorous lemon-gold hue. The wine has a nose of spring flowers, almond, and tobacco. The palate is effusive, almost precocious, an embarrassment of gustatory benevolence; the acidity is a little bitter on the finish; more time is required for the wine to harmonize in its post-disgorgement phase. 16.5

Tom Stevenson: Bright, medium-deep lemon color, with big gunpowder toastiness on the nose and intense fruit on the palate. Nectarines and crunchy redfruit coulis, intermingled with lovely gentle toasty aromas. Long, very fine finish. Great acids. 18.5 (29 months post disgorgement, tasted 2014; 12%; 9.7g/l dosage; 40mg/l total SO2)