SF | Attractive straw-gold, iridescent, with a garland of pinprick mousse. The nose is reticent, dignified maybe, with soft fruit and a hint of wet pavement and spice. More expressive on the palate, vanillin kissing the apples, plums, and soft mango in support. Dosage is evidenced, but not intrusively. Approachable now, sensual rather than cerebral, but pleasingly orchestrated. 93
EA | Pale lemon color. Soft, fruity nose, with creamy-leesy tones and some toast and hay adding on the secondary aromatics. A melange of ripe orchard fruit, with apple and peach at the fore. A faint vegetal tone is well-hidden under the pristine fruitiness. The palate matches the nose, with appealing, sweet fruitiness and its creamy textural qualities in the refined, cushiony mousse. Long, juicy length of softness and pristine fruit. An appealing whole, with good freshness and energy. Pleasurable already but worth cellaring further. 2023–38. 95
TH | Pleasing brown-bread and blackberry nose, showing ripe and aromatic Pinot Noir, backed up by some zesty and punchy Chardonnay. This avoids 2015's aromatic peculiarities, instead presenting a mature and food-friendly style of mid-palate Pinot breadth and closing citric grippiness. Direct. 90