Essi Avellan: Deep lemon-gold color. Delicate, soft, deep nose of great beauty. Coffee, gunpowder, candle wax, tropical fruit, and confectionary: promising but slightly timid. Crisp, lively palate full of delicious fruit. Long and fruit-driven. Not yet shining at its brightest. 19

Simon Field: Straw-lemon color and a persistent small bead; the nose recalls hedgerow fruit and hints of verbena. The palate is plump and generous in intention; high acidity and relatively recent disgorgement mask the potential inherent in the wine’s structural complexity, but the potential is most certainly there. 17

Tom Stevenson: Light to medium lemon color, with seductive, toasty-peach aromas and heavenly fruit on the palate. Rich and elegant, so long, long, long, with a wonderful peachiness of fruit on the aftertaste. A great wine. 19.5 (6 months post disgorgement, tasted 2014; 12%; 5.7g/l dosage; 40mg/l total SO2)