Michael Edwards: This Champagne speaks sunshine and ripeness; fine, toasty Chardonnay nose, seductive but enhanced by fresh flowing, crisp energy and sense of the chalk. Excellent to exceptional for the vintage. 17

Andrew Jefford: Pale gold with a languid mousse. Lots of mayflower, honey, and pollen here, plus that note that Michael Broadbent MW used to call “fishskin.” A blanc de blancs of flowery charm, and very much my kind of thing. On the palate, this is rich, elegant, expressive, and multidimensioned: delicate, very stony fruit, and armfuls of wild hawthorn and other mayblossom flowers laid over it. Poise, finesse, elegance, “minerality”: They are all here. Lots of stone in the finish, indeed. Remarkable wine, too, in that it has all of these rich notes present but without ever overwhelming its elemental vitality. Bravo! 18.5

Tom Stevenson: Too rich, too heavy. 14